Julia Donaldson

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Julia Donaldson (born in 1948) is an English writer and playwright, best known as author of The Gruffalo and other children's books, many illustrated by German Axel Scheffler. Of her 157 published books, 56 are widely available in bookshops. The remaining 101 are intended for school use and include her "Songbirds" phonic reading scheme which is part of the Oxford Reading Tree. Her book The Snail and the Whale was named by Gordon Brown as one of his favourites. She originally wrote songs for children's television, but has concentrated on writing books since one of her songs, A Squash and a Squeeze was published in 1993. She has also written a number of plays for school drama groups.