The popular author and illustrator of Dogger and the Alfie series has died. Here, leading contemporaries pay tribute

Shirley Hughes, children’s author and illustrator, dies aged 94

Shirley Hughes obituary

British children’s author of War Horse, Why the Whales Came and Private Peaceful

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