Dixie O'Day: Up, Up and Away!

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<p><p>Dixie, Percy and their new friend, Ariel, are off on an adventure in the clouds. Making a speedy getaway from their archenemy Lou Ella, they find themselves soaring away in a hot-air balloon! But there are stormy skies ahead"</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Be swept away with Dixie and Percy in an action-packed airborne escapade from mother-daughter pairing Shirley Hughes and Clara Vulliamy. These first chapter books have chapter for each night of the week and are full of maps, extra activities, and everything needed to empower a new reader.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>"A witty and beautifully designed series for emerging readers" THE SUNDAY TIMES</p></p>

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<p><p>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<i>My Naughty Little Sister</i>series.</p><p></p><p>Shirley began to write and draw her own picture books when her children were young. Her first book -<i>Lucy and Tom's Day</i>- was published in 1960, and she followed it with, among others,<i>Dogger</i>and the<i>Alfie</i>series.</p><p></p><p>Shirley Hughes has won the Other Award, the Eleanor Farjeon Award, and the Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration twice, for<i>Dogger</i>in 1977 and for<i>Ella's Big Chance</i>in 2003. In 2007<i>Dogger was</i>voted the public's favourite Greenaway winner of all time. Shirley received an OBE in 1999 for services to Children's Literature.</p></p>

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