We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. Lucy Richards has illustrated books by Michael Morpurgo and Julia Donaldson, as well as writing and illustrating her own book The Magic Sky. From the multi-award-winning author of a string of beloved contemporary classics, including The Hospital Dog, The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, Stick Man, Room on the Broom, The Smeds and the Smoos, Zog, What the Ladybird Heard and Spinderella.

If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.It was a shame as the little monkeys were cute and it probably would have been loved by my friend’s daughter but I couldn’t give it in that state! This prompted me to unearth some plays I’d written for a school reading group, and since then I’ve had 20 plays published. Julia Donaldson Julia Donaldson is the best-selling author of The Gruffalo, The Giants and the Joneses, The Wrong Kind of Bark, Spinderella and Night Monkey, Day Monkey.

It looked that it had been posted like that (not occurred in transit) and I was very disappointed that they would send something in that condition. Julia Donaldson is a former Children’s Laureate and the author of the internationally bestselling book The Gruffalo, as well as numerous other popular titles. She lives in Glasgow with her husband and spends a lot of time touring the country doing readings – and singing!

We work separately – he’s in London and I’m in Glasgow – but he sends me letters with lovely funny pictures on the envelopes. Night monkey is baffled by the brightness of the sun and confuses moths for butterflies and giants for chimpanzees. It's a beautifully written book however I have dropped a star because of how hard this is to read at bedtime in dim lighting. Among her acclaimed titles are The Gruffalo, What the Ladybird Heard, Stick Man, Zog, The Smeds and the Smoos, The Scarecrows\' Wedding and Night Monkey, Day Monkey.

They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. Written by Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo, this comical and touching friendship story explores individual differences, opposites and night and day. Julia Donaldson has written some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which together have sold over 25 million copies worldwide and have been translated into over one hundred languages. This book by the award-winning Gruffalo partnership is about a tiny snail who longs to see the world, and the enormous grey-blue humpback whale who gives him a lift on his tail.My novel The Giants and the Joneses is going to be made into a film by the same team who made the Harry Potter movies, and I have written three books of stories about the anarchic Princess Mirror-Belle who appears from the mirror and disrupts the life of an otherwise ordinary eight-year-old. Julia Donaldson’s beloved rhyming picture book story about two monkeys who are as different as night and day yet still learn to be friends – with adorable, sumptuous illustrations from Lucy Richards.

One of the finest stories from Julia Donaldson, the author behind The Gruffalo , Room on the Broom , The Scarecrow's Wedding and What the Ladybird Heard . These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site.Other than that, it is one of our favourite books and has opened up a lot of exploring from my daughter. More about Julia: “I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. One of my television songs, A Squash and a Squeeze, was made into a book in 1993, with illustrations by the wonderful Axel Scheffler. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. It's important to read to your child early and though probably more likely to listen when they are many months older as they sleep alot to begin with it's still nice for them to recognise the tone and sound of your voice.