Julia Donaldson
📚 Renowned children's author and laureate 📚
Julia Donaldson CBE (born Julia Catherine Shields; born 16 September
1948) is an English writer and playwright, and the 2011–2013 Children's
Laureate. She is best known for her popular rhyming stories for
children, especially those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which include
The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom and Stick Man.
She originally wrote songs for children's television but has concentrated on writing books
since the words of one of her songs, "A Squash and a Squeeze", were made
into a children's book in 1993. Of her 184 published works, 64 are
widely available in bookshops. The remaining 120 are intended for school
use and include her Songbirds phonic reading scheme, which is part of
the Oxford University Press's Oxford Reading Tree.
Here's where to buy 5 of my favourite Julia Donaldson books: