Skip to content Skip to footer
Menu
Search term is required
  • Home
  • What we do Toggle What we do sub-navigation
    • Programmes and campaigns
    • Awards and prizes
    • Children's Laureate
    • Impact and research
    • BookTrust Cymru
    • BookTrust Northern Ireland
  • Books and reading Toggle Books and reading sub-navigation
    • HomeTime
    • Bookfinder
    • Our recommendations
    • Tips and advice
    • Disability and books
  • News and features Toggle News and features sub-navigation
    • News
    • Features
    • Writer in Residence
    • Press
  • About us Toggle About us sub-navigation
    • Governance
    • BookTrust affiliates
    • Work at BookTrust
    • Contact us
  • Support us Toggle Support us sub-navigation
    • Do your own fundraising
    • Become a Friend
    • Corporate partnerships
Donate
Practitioner login
Menu
BookTrust logo
  • Home
  • What we do
    • Programmes and campaigns
    • Awards and prizes
    • Children's Laureate
    • Impact and research
    • BookTrust Cymru
    • BookTrust Northern Ireland
  • Books and reading
    • HomeTime
    • Bookfinder
    • Our recommendations
    • Tips and advice
    • Disability and books
  • News and features
    • News
    • Features
    • Writer in Residence
    • Press
  • About us
    • Governance
    • BookTrust affiliates
    • Work at BookTrust
    • Contact us
  • Support us
    • Do your own fundraising
    • Become a Friend
    • Corporate partnerships
  • Donate
  • Site Search Dropdown
  • Home
  • Authors
  • D
  • Donaldson, Julia
Back to previous page
© Alex Rumford

Julia Donaldson

Julia Donaldson is one of today's most popular writers. Her bestselling titles include The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo's Child and Room on the Broom. Although she is best-known for her picture books, Julia also writes longer novels, plays and songs. She lives in Glasgow and spends a lot of time on stage performing her brilliant sell-out singalong shows!

Julia Donaldson was the Children's Laureate 2011-13.

Visit Author's Website

Books

  • A Squash and a Squeeze

    A Squash and a Squeeze

    Author: Julia Donaldson Illustrator: Axel Scheffler
    Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
    Interest age: 3-6
    Reading age: 6+

    An anxious little old lady has a house that is just too small - but when she asks a wise old man for help, he suggests a rather strange solution to her problems.

  • Cave Baby

    Cave Baby

    Author: Julia Donaldson Illustrator: Emily Gravett
    Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
    Interest age: 3+
    Reading age: 6+

    Cave Baby is restless and sets about amusing himself. But he is warned that being naughty will mean 'A mammoth's going to throw you to the big brown bear!'

  • One Ted Falls Out of Bed

    One Ted Falls Out of Bed

    Author: Julia Donaldson Illustrator: Anna Currey
    Publisher: Macmillan
    Interest age: 2+
    Reading age: 4+

    This book is brilliant for bedtime, and the rhyming story is fun to read.

  • Spinderella

    Spinderella

    Author: Julia Donaldson Illustrator: Sebastien Braun
    Publisher: Egmont
    Interest age: 3-6
    Reading age: 5-7

    Spinderella is a spider who lives with her spider mum and brothers and sisters on top of a ceiling light at a school. A story about numbers, football and family, Spinderella is an enjoyable read for young children just starting to learn maths.

  • Stick Man

    Stick Man

    Author: Julia Donaldson Illustrator: Axel Scheffler
    Publisher: Scholastic
    Interest age: 3+
    Reading age: 6+

    The award-winning creators of The Gruffalo now present us with a modern variation on a long-established folk tale theme, which details the perilous adventures of a stick.

  • The Gruffalo Song and Other Songs

    The Gruffalo Song and Other Songs

    Author: Julia Donaldson Illustrator: Axel Scheffler
    Publisher: Pan Macmillan
    Interest age: 4+
    Reading age: 6+

    The ever-popular Gruffalo returns in musical form in this book of songs to sing and play from Julia Donaldson.

  • The Gruffalo's Child

    The Gruffalo's Child

    Author: Julia Donaldson Illustrator: Axel Scheffler
    Publisher: Macmillan Children's books
    Interest age: 3+
    Reading age: 7+

    Five years after the publication of multi award-winning The Gruffalo, author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler return with a much-awaited sequel.

  • The Paper Dolls

    The Paper Dolls

    Author: Julia Donaldson Illustrator: Rebecca Cobb
    Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
    Interest age: 3+
    Reading age: 6+

    A little girl makes a string of paper dolls with her mother, and then takes them off to play in an imaginative world of her own - until a pair of scissors threaten.

  • The Smeds and the Smoos

    The Smeds and the Smoos

    Author: Julia Donaldson Illustrator: Axel Scheffler
    Publisher: Alison Green Books
    Interest age: 3-5

    On a far-off planet, a young red Smed called Janet falls in love with a young blue Smoo called Bill. The newest rhyming picture book from the stellar pairing of Donaldson and Scheffler provides all their usual invention, quirkiness and read-aloud expertise.

  • The Wrong Kind of Bark

    The Wrong Kind of Bark

    Author: Julia Donaldson Illustrator: Garry Parsons
    Publisher: Egmont
    Interest age: 5+
    Reading age: 7+

    When asked to bring things in for the nature table, Finlay gets the wrong end of the stick. But it’s when he brings in the wrong kind of bark that the chaos really begins!

  • Follow us

    • Twitter
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Youtube

    Keep in touch

    020 7801 8800

    queries@booktrust.org.uk

    • Contact us
    • Work with us
    • Site map
    • Press
    • Help using this site

    Sign up to our newsletters full of updates, activities, ways to support us and fun ideas to inspire children to read.

    Sign up
    • Cookies
    • Freedom of information
    • Privacy policy
    • Copyright notice

    Charity number 313343

    Copyright © 2019 BookTrust

    • Arts Council England
    • Fundraising Regulator
    Back to top