The Lion And The Unicorn by Shirley Hughes Paperback Book

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As Lenny's father goes off to fight in the World War II, he gives his son a brass badge with a lion and a unicorn on it. Lenny keeps it with him when he has to be evacuated to a big house in the country. He misses his parents, and the other children there and at school are spiteful in teasing him. But, he finds a secret walled garden to escape.

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As Lenny's father goes off to fight in the second world war he gives his son a brass badge with a lion and a unicorn on it. Lenny keeps it with him when bombs are dropped on his street and when he has to be evacuated to a big house in the country. He misses his parents a great deal and the other children there and at school are spiteful in teasing him.But he finds a secret walled garden to escape to with a stone unicorn. Here he meets the wounded soldier Mick and learns again how hard it is to be brave. It is the unicorn who finally rescues him from his sadness and loneliness and proves itself to be his guardian angel by bringing his mother to him.

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A historical picture book for older readers, that gives them an insight into a child's way of life during World War II. "A triumph for Hughes whose illustrations are most evocative" The Sunday Telegraph. Readership level: 6+.

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When Lenny's father goes off to fight in the Second World War he gives his son a brass badge of a lion and a unicorn fighting each other and tells him to be brave. Soon Lenny is evacuated from the war-torn streets of London to a big house in the country, but the only place he feels safe is the secret walled garden. There he meets Mick, an injured soldier, who helps him understand the true nature of courage. This Powerful story about a young child's wartime experiences is told with the enthralling illustrations of one of the best-loved children's authors, Shirley Hughes.

Author Biography

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, and a CBE in 2017. She is the first recipient of Booktrust's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Review

"No one can match Shirley Hughes in the siple mastery of both words and pictures" Times Educational Supplement

Kirkus UK Review

Shirley Hughes is well known for her stories for younger children, but her longer texts are rich in images and language that will entrance more mature readers. This latast is a beautifully balanced tale about how a father's stories of his travels inspire his children to make up stories and adventures of their own. Enchantment in the Garden is a magical tale of a lonely girl who brings to life a statue of a boy on a dolphin's back whose father was a sea god and who must return to the sea. The Lion and the Unicorn is a deeply moving story of a young boy who is evactuatd during World War Two. All are expressively illustrated. (Kirkus UK)

Kirkus US Review

From Hughes (Enchantment in the Garden, 1997, etc.), a WWII story with big ambitions - many of them realized - set out in the pages of an unusually long picture book. Lenny Levi lives in London with his mother during the Blitz, cherishing the letters from his father at the front, and the medal of the lion and the unicorn his father gave him. When Lenny is evacuated to the country, he finds himself at a huge old manor with three little girls, the lady of the house, and a few servants. He is lonely, teased at school and at home for not eating bacon and for bedwetting, but makes a friend of the young man with one leg he meets in the secret garden on the estate. The garden, thick with roses, also holds a beautiful statue of a unicorn like the one on his medal. As Lenny's loneliness and fear spiral out of control, a night vision of the unicorn brings him back; his mother comes to take them both to his aunt in Wales, where his father will join them. The storyline, while straightforward, hints at difficult subjects - religious differences, amputees, separation, family disruptions, the terror of bombing, and more - which are then given only cursory treatment. The pictures are splendid: luminous, full-bodied watercolors that capture the horror of London burning, the glory of the countryside, and mists of dreams. It may be difficult for this to find its audience, but children too young for Michelle Magorian's GoodNight. Mr. Tom (1986) might be captured. (Kirkus Reviews)

Prizes

Short-listed for Kate Greenaway Medal 1999

Review Text

No one can match Shirley Hughes in the simple mastery of both words and pictures

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No one can match Shirley Hughes in the simple mastery of both words and pictures

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This powerful story about a young child's wartime experiences is told with the enthralling illustrations of one of the best-loved children's authors, Shirley Hughes.

Details ISBN0099256088 Pages 64 Year 2000 Illustrator Shirley Hughes ISBN-10 0099256088 ISBN-13 9780099256083 Format Paperback Imprint Red Fox Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.914 Illustrations colour illustrations Birth 1927 Media Book Edition New edition Audience Age 5 Publication Date 2000-09-07 Audience Children/Juvenile UK Release Date 2000-09-07 Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK AU Release Date 2000-09-07 NZ Release Date 2000-09-07 Author Shirley Hughes We've got this

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