Alfie Gets in First

Unbearably exciting. Our four-year-old demanded a second reading

Darren Slade, Daily Echo

There's just something so reassuring about Hughes' colourful drawings of the day-to-day activities that you know inside out . . . words and pictures merge seamlessly . . . Hughes is a magical storyteller with an instinctive understanding of the mind of the pre-schooler . . . she makes the ordinary extraordinary

Guardian

Shirley Hughes is a national treasure

Philip Pullman

Text and artwork are both delightful and sympathetically balanced

British Book News