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Illustrators/authors like Shirley Hughes?

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letsgooutstiiiiiiide · 10/04/2019 09:00

DS (2.5) has a massive crush on Alfie, Annie Rose, Lucy & Tom. I am happy enough reading the entire available Shirley Hughes canon day in, day out, as i like them too... but we're going to need more at some point. We are working our way through everything else Hughes has done too, though Katie & Olly et al. are very much not as compelling as Alfie/ Lucy & Tom.

Can anyone suggest anything similarly beautifully illustrated and comfortingly "normal"*?

*I appreciate that Hughes' "normal" is very white, middle-class, privileged, etc - and will do what I can to give DS books that include other "normals". At 2.5 though, I think Alfie is all the complexity he really wants.

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DownWentTheFlag · 03/06/2019 10:30

I also vote for anything by Benedict Blathwayt. The illustrations are absolutely beautiful.

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