Bobbo Goes To School

Lily is back, and this time she's searching for her beloved lost toy - but Bobbo has gone to school!When Lily throws Bobbo onto the top of the school bus, she has no idea what an adventure he has in store. This drama-packed book is a race to reunite Lily and lost Bobbo, as well as learning all about school...

“Shirley Hughes' timeless artwork brings to life another beautiful tale of childhood...The artwork records emotions wonderfully... Bobbo Goes to School brings a different perspective on school, which might be welcome by children who are a bit nervous about this imminent change.”

Shirley Hughes' timeless artwork brings to life another beautiful tale of childhood...The artwork records emotions wonderfully...Bobbo Goes to School brings a different perspective on school, which might be welcome by children who are a bit nervous about this imminent change. Library Mice - blog
Every bookshelf should have Bobbo Goes to School...Shirley Hughes is great at conveying everyday life in all its humdrum importance to a young child. Junior London magazine
The pictures were beautifully detailed and colourful ... I can see why Shirley Hughes is a well loved author -- Reba and Amatullah guardian.co.uk

Shirley Hughes illustrated more than 200 children's books and is one of the best-loved writers for children, known for her beloved classics including the Alfie and Annie Rose stories, and Dogger.Shirley Hughes was born in West Kirby, near Liverpool, in 1927, and studied fashion and dress design at Liverpool Art School, before continuing her studies at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford. She started her career as a freelance illustrator in London, illustrating other writers' work, including Noel Streatfeild, Alison Uttley, Ian Seraillier and notably Dorothy Edwards's My Naughty Little Sister series.Shirley began to write and draw her own picture books when her children were young. Her first book - Lucy and Tom's Day - was published in 1960, and she followed it with, among others, Dogger, and the Alfie series. Her books include the wordless picture book Up and Up, collection of rhymes and poems Out and About, and for the very young The Nursery Collection.She wrote two novels for older children, Hero on a Bicycle, about a 13-year-old Italian boy during the occupation of Florence, and Whistling in the Dark, set during the Liverpool Blitz. Her memoir, A Life Drawing, was published in 2002.She also collaborated with her daughter, Clara Vulliamy, on the Dixie O'Day series; which saw Shirley with an illustrator for the first time with Shirley writing the text and Clara creating the illustrations.In 2020 she returned to her much-loved character, Dogger, with a new story Dogger's Christmas.Shirley Hughes has won the Other Award, the Eleanor Farjeon Award, and the Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration twice, for Dogger in 1977 and for Ella's Big Chance in 2003. In 2007 Dogger was voted the public's favourite Greenaway winner of all time. She was Highly Commended for the Greenaway Medal for The Lion and the Unicorn in 1998. Shirley received an OBE in 1999 for services to Children's Literature, and a CBE in 2017. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was the first recipient of BookTrust's Lifetime Achievement Award.Shirley died in London in 2022.

One day Lily isn't in a very good mood, and she does a silly thing - she throws her beloved toy Bobbo up on top of a school bus! Lily is very worried. But what an adventure for Bobbo, as both he and Lily learn about school. A wonderfully reassuring tale from Shirley Hughes, creator of Dogger, voted the public's favourite CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal winner of all time Praise for Don't Want to Go! which also features Lily: "The emotions are pitch perfect; Hughes takes the simplest of themes and gives it universal significance" Sunday Telegraph

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