Valerie lives with her rich Italian father and American mother in a
beautiful Italian house. One afternoon she slips away from her
governess in the park to see her favourite statue, Cherubino, the
boy on the dolphin. Imagine her surprise when the statue comes to
life.
內容簡介:
A lonely little girl whispers into the ear of a marble
statue and breathes life into his soul - and so the magic
begins.
關於作者:
Shirley was born in West Kirby, near Liverpool, 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 then embarked on a career as a freelance illustrator in London,
where she still lives today. She illustrated other writers'' work,
including Noel Streatfeild, Alison Uttley, Ian Seraillier, Margaret
Mahy 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. 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. Shirley received an OBE in 1999 for services to
Children''s Literature.