Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

Julia Donaldson

January 2024

  • The library in the doll’s house, a 1:12 scale replica on an Edwardian residence, that was given as a gift from the nation to Queen Mary after the first world war.

    Tom Parker Bowles picked for mini library project championed by his mum

  • Two girls laughing and reading books in school library

    ‘Every school should have a library’: Philip Pullman calls for new UK laws

August 2023

  • The Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler whose book has sold more than 13.5m copies.

    The Gruffalo is likely to be a child’s first book, UK survey finds

    Collecting data from 2,000 parents, retailer The Works found the bestseller was the most popular choice when parents pick what to read to their children for the first time

July 2023

  • Henri and the Machine by Isabelle Marinov, illustrated by Olga Shtonda.

    Picture books for children – reviews

  • From left … Felicia Akin-Tayo, Tom Capper, Andrea Sadler and Robert Penny in The Smeds and the Smoods.

    Play time
    The Smeds and the Smoos review – songs and screams in Donaldson and Scheffler’s jolly voyage

May 2023

  • Composite image featuring actor Jodie Whittaker alongside Tabby McTat, released through Axel Scheffler

    Tabby McTat: Jodie Whittaker to narrate animated film based on Julia Donaldson’s beloved book

    The former Doctor Who star will narrate the BBC’s adaptation, with Rob Brydon playing Fred and Sope Dirisu as his tuneful feline

March 2023

  • Malorie Blackman, Alan Moore and Carol Ann Duffy

    Don’t write what you know, write what you feel: bestselling authors offer tips on World Book Day

    Malorie Blackman advises budding authors to pick up on news stories, but Julia Donaldson warns of pitfalls – and Alan Moore says you should read terrible books as well as good ones

February 2023

  • Julia Donaldson

    Julia Donaldson ends James Patterson’s reign as UK libraries’ most borrowed author

    Data shows that Patterson’s 14-year run as readers’ overall favourite has given way to the Gruffalo author

December 2022

  • Albie Sachs, outside the constitutional court of South Africa in Johannesburg in February 2022.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about freedom

    Authors as radically different as Julia Donaldson, John Rawls and Ayn Rand can make us appreciate the value of freedom, and the terrible jeopardy of losing it

September 2022

  • Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

    ‘At first she didn’t like my drawings’: Axel Scheffler and Julia Donaldson on three decades of collaboration

    In a rare joint interview, the creators of The Gruffalo talk about baddies, Brexit – and the bumpy beginning to their partnership

December 2021

  • ‘Sometimes I think about retiring early …’ Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

    Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler on saving Christmas: ‘We don’t usually meet people who hate our books’

  • Superworm

    Julia Donaldson reveals tussle over opening couplet of Superworm

June 2021

  • Smartest Giant in Town.

    The Smartest Giant in Town review – a very tall tale

    Nutty animals and witty puppetry liven up this at times bleak version of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s picture book

May 2021

  • The Smartest Giant, played by Duane Gooden at Little Angel Theatre, London.

    Behind the scenes of The Smartest Giant in Town – in pictures

  • ‘Stories of hope’ … Carle in the Eric Carle Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts.

    Children’s authors on Eric Carle: ‘He created readers as voracious as that caterpillar’

April 2021

  • Cressida Cowell photographed at her home in West London. Cowell is the new UK Children's Lauterate. The position initially awarded in the United Kingdom once every two years to a "writer or illustrator of children's books to celebrate outstanding achievement in their field." Cressida Cowell is an English children's author, popularly known for the book series, How to Train Your Dragon, which has subsequently become an award-winning franchise as adapted for the screen by DreamWorks Animation. As of 2015, the series has sold more than seven million copies around the world. In addition to her other publications, Cowell works with illustrator Neal Layton in the ongoing series of Emily Brown stories. The first in the series, That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown, won a Nestlé Children’s Book Award.

    Children’s laureates campaign for £100m a year to fix primary school libraries

    Current laureate Cressida Cowell leads demands to ringfence funds to renew ‘deteriorating’ facilities that fail to appeal to students

February 2021

  • Clockwise from top left: Boys State; Dick Johnson Is Dead; MLK/FBI; Quo Vadis, Aida?; Dear Comrades!; Another Round.

    Oscars release first shortlists for 2021 Academy Awards

    Boys State, MLK/FBI and Crip Camp among contenders as categories announced include best documentary and best international film

January 2021

  • Julia Donaldson, writer, playwright and performer, and the 2011-2013 Children's Laureate. Photographed at home in East sussex. Photograph by David Levene. 27/11/20

    The Audio Long Read
    How Julia Donaldson conquered the world, one rhyme at a time – podcast

  • A new, lockdown-themed illustration of the witch from Room on the Broom by Axel Scheffler, with words by Julia Donaldson. Stay at home with more from your favourite friends Axel Scheffler and Julia Donaldson present a new series of topical verses and pictures in response to the national crisis

    Lockdown culture
    Broom to Zoom: Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler launch new Covid tales

December 2020

  • Bob Dylan in 1966

    Brief letters
    The times they are a-changing

    Brief letters: Severn Bridge and Bob Dylan | Where are the redwings? | Food scarcity | Julia Donaldson | Astrology | No more Vic Marks
About 159 results for Julia Donaldson
1234...
Explore more on these topics
  翻译：