The Big Alfie and Annie Rose Storybook

by Shirley Hughes, Shirley Hughes (Illustrator)

Overview

This charming collection of nine short stories, poems, and colorful pictures starring Alfie and his baby sister, Annie Rose, celebrate the drama of everyday life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780099750307
Publisher:	Red Fox
Publication date:	09/01/2007
Series:	Alfie
Edition description:	New
Pages:	64
Sales rank:	211,299
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 5 Years

About the Author

Shirley Hughes has written more than 200 books, creating enduring characters like Alfie and Dogger, who have thrilled children and adults alike with their tales of growing up and everyday discovery. Her many awards include the Kate Greenaway Medal and the prestigious Eleanor Farjeon Award for her services to children's literature.

Editorial Reviews

"Fans of the other Alfie books and those meeting the family for the first time will be pleased by the real-life situations, jauntily depicted in Hughes's fresh-faced watercolors."  —Publishers Weekly



"A generous collection of incidents and vignettes . . . Like their neatly plotted predecessors, these nine pieces explore childhood's joys and satisfactions with uncommon sensitivity and warmth . . . Lovely as a first chapter book to share with preschoolers, or for Alfie's old friends to read to themselves."  —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

Hughes offers readers her usual clear-eyed view of childhood in this 64-page collection of stories. It's a leisurely visit with siblings Alfie and baby Annie Rose; he teaches her to feed herself, and she rewards him cruelly: the very first name she learns to say is that of his friend Bernard. The children know all the people up and down their street, and theirs is a friendly world--when a neighbor, Mrs. McNally, gives Alfie a hat, he in turn offers it to the milkman on a rainy day. Light, unrhymed poems punctuate the stories about this school-age boy and his toddler sister. Fans of the other Alfie books and those meeting the family for the first time will be pleased by the real-life situations, jauntily depicted in Hughes's fresh-faced watercolors. Ages 3-6. (Mar.)

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