Popular children's author to receive honorary degree – University of Liverpool". Liv.ac.uk. 8 July 2004 . Retrieved 26 January 2011.

The poem ‘spring greens’ can relate to a topic all about gardening and allows children to explore planting their own plants. The poems are short, expressive and capture each of the seasons and experiences as the child is “Out and About” the neighborhood or down at the seaside. It has been said by Philip Pullman, “Shirley Hughes is a national treasure.” How true. Families will treasure this delightful book and probably pass it along to future generations. Her exceptional contribution to children’s books was widely recognised, with awards for individual titles including the Children’s Rights Workshop Other award, a prize that celebrated diversity in children’s books, for Helpers (1975); and a second Kate Greenaway medal, for Ella’s Big Chance (2003). She received the Eleanor Farjeon award for services to children’s literature in 1984, and was the first winner of the BookTrust lifetime achievement award, in 2015. She was appointed OBE in 1999 and CBE in 2017. Shirley Hughes, "Word and Image", in M. Fearn, ed., Only the Best is Good Enough: the Woodfield Lectures 1978–85 (1985) Cottrell-Boyce, Frank (2 March 2022). "Shirley Hughes Showed Our World at Its Best". New Statesman . Retrieved 2 March 2022.Rebecca Cobb. Photograph: Macmillan Rebecca Cobb: ‘The more I look at Hughes’s illustrations the more I appreciate all the little details’

Philip Pullman. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images Philip Pullman: ‘Inimitable, beloved, immortal’a b c d e f g "Children's author and illustrator Shirley Hughes dies at 94". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460 . Retrieved 6 April 2022. Hughes won a second Greenaway (no illustrator has won three) for Ella's Big Chance (2003), her own adaptation of Cinderella, set in the 1920s. [5] [6] It was published in the U.S. as Ella's Big Chance: A Jazz-Age Cinderella (Simon & Schuster, 2004). She was also a three-time Greenaway commended runner up: for Flutes and Cymbals: Poetry for the Young (1968), a collection compiled by Leonard Clark; for Helpers (Bodley Head, 1975), which she wrote and illustrated; and for The Lion and the Unicorn (Bodley Head, 1998), which she wrote and illustrated (Highly Commended). [29] [a] Roper, Kerri-Ann (2 March 2022). "Children's author and illustrator Shirley Hughes dies aged 94". www.standard.co.uk . Retrieved 2 March 2022.