THE GIFT.
A bowl of crystal struck
With all the fissures of stone
Was a gift.
Hand-held by lamas
Its cup was carved to be
A skull-top, rocking;
It held a friend once
(Poem extract and image: Copyright: Frieda Hughes)
£3,500.00
THE GIFT – 16x12in – 40x30cm – oil on canvas £3500
ALTERNATIVE VALUES: A Gift for Any Occasion: My illustrated poetry collection contains poems for love, marriage, life, and death and addresses some of my childhood experiences as the daughter of the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
2001: Three Scary Stories (three stories for older children, illustrated by Chris Riddell), published by Harper Collins UK.
1997: The Tall Story (7-9 year olds), published by Macdonald Young Books in the U.K. Illustrated by Chris Riddell 2003: Re-issued by Hodder Children’s Books.
1994: Rent-a-Friend (7-9 year olds) published by Simon and Schuster in the U.K. Illustrated by Chris Riddell 2003: Re-issued by Hodder Children’s Books.
1992: The Thing in the Sink (7-9 year olds) published by Simon and Schuster in the U.K. Illustrated by Chris Riddell 2003: Re-issued by Hodder Children’s Books.
1990: Waldorf and the Sleeping Granny (a novel for 10–12-yyear-olds, author and illustrator) published by Simon & Schuster in the U.K.
1989: The Meal A Mile Long (picture book for very young children, author and illustrator) published by Simon & Schuster in the U.S., Australia, and the U.K.
1986: Getting Rid of Aunt Edna, published by Harper & Row in the U.S. Illustrated by Ed Levine
1986: Getting Rid of Edna (6 short stories for children) published in the U.K. by Heinemann Published in paperback in 1988 in the U.K. by Pan Books Ltd. (Young Piper edition). Re-illustrated by Scoular Anderson.
2009: The Book of Mirrors was published by Bloodaxe Books in the UK in October. The author illustrated the cover.
2009: Stonepicker and The Book of Mirrors were published by Harper Collins in the US in May. The author illustrated the cover. (This double book includes Stonepicker, which was not previously published in the US.)
2002: Waxworks was published by Bloodaxe in the U.K., Harper Collins in the U.S., and Fremantle Press in Australia in February 2003. The author illustrated the cover.
2001: Stonepicker was published in 2001 by Bloodaxe in the U.K. and Fremantle Press in Australia. The author illustrated the cover. Harper Flamingo in the U.S. to publish in 2005
1998: Wooroloo was published in the U.S. by Harper Flamingo. In 1999 by Fremantle Arts Center Press in Australia and by Bloodaxe in the U.K., with an author-illustrated cover. Wooroloo received a special commendation from the Poetry Book Society.
