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Hollie Hughes.

Writer · United Kingdom

Hollie Hughes: British author of The Girl and the Dinosaur and The Girl and the Mermaid (with Sarah Massini on art) — gentle, rhyming picture books about loneliness and imagination for ages 3–6.

Hollie Hughes is a British author best known for the Girl and the… picture-book series (The Girl and the Dinosaur, The Girl and the Mermaid), quietly emotional rhyming picture books about a child whose loneliness conjures imaginary companions. Illustrated by Sarah Massini in soft, painterly style. Hughes's voice is gentle, poetic, well-suited to bedtime read-aloud and to children processing big feelings. A reliable contemporary UK picture-book author for ages 3–6 in the gentle-emotional rhyming-picture-book register.