Windows into illustration: Laura Hughes


Laura Hughes is the illustrator of There’s a Pig Up My Nose, winner of the Oscar’s Book Prize 2018, as well as We’re Going on Elf Chase and the Ruby Roo stories. Her loose, energetic


illustrations for Mummy’s Suitcase by Pip Jones.


recognizable. Here she describes the process involved in creating


illustrations are instantly the


Mummy’s Suitcase, by Pip Jones is the fourth title in the Ruby Roo picture book series, following on from Daddy’s Sandwich, The Chocolate Monster, and Quick Barney RUN! The books feature the main protagonist, Ruby Roo, and sometimes her mum, dad and baby brother Barney.


Pip is such a brilliant and funny writer, and I love all the ‘Mum jokes’ she has included in the story. I feel very lucky to have been able to work with her on the Ruby Roo books.


The image I’ve chosen to talk about features later on in the book. Mum is going away and Ruby decides to pack her Mum’s prized roses for her, because she knows her mum loves them, but she’s obviously been warned not to touch them, so she decides to dig them up instead! Ruby isn’t being intentionally naughty though; she is just trying to be helpful in the best way she knows how to.


12 Books for Keeps No.235 March 2019


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