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Axel Scheffler

Axel Scheffler

Axel was born in Hamburg, Germany. At school he was good at art, but didn't think of a career in illustration until he won a cuddly purple cow in a drawing competition. He moved to England in 1982 to study illustration at the Bath Academy of Art, and then set up home in London.

He was the illustrator for Julia Donaldson's first picture book, A Squash and a Squeeze - the start of a hugely successful partnership. Their bestselling modern classic, The Gruffalo, has sold millions of copies. His books have been translated into 42 languages.

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.

  • Axel Scheffler Rhyming Stories Book 1: Pip the Dog and Freddy the Frog

    Axel Scheffler Rhyming Stories Book 1: Pip the Dog and Freddy the Frog

    Author: Axel Scheffler
    Publisher: Campbell Books
    Interest age: 2+
    Reading age: 4+

    The first in a series of rhyming stories following unlikely friends who love to make noise and have fun.

  • Axel Scheffler’s Flip Flap Ocean

    Axel Scheffler’s Flip Flap Ocean

    Author: Axel Scheffler
    Publisher: Nosy Crow
    Interest age: 3-6
    Reading age: 5+

    Featuring Axel Scheffler's bright, friendly and recognisable animal illustrations and a lighthearted rhyming text, children can also mix the animal names, poems AND animal pictures up to create amusing hybrids.

  • Axel Scheffler's Flip-Flap Farm

    Axel Scheffler's Flip-Flap Farm

    Author: Axel Scheffler
    Publisher: Nosy Crow
    Interest age: 2+
    Reading age: 6+

    Axel Scheffler's Flip Flap Farm is a rhyming book app: swipe any part of the screen to create 121 different combinations of animal halves, rhymes and silly, hybrid animal names.

  • Ben a Betsan Y Falŵn fawr  Ben and Betsan The Big Balloon.jpg

    Ben a Betsan: Y Falŵn fawr / Ben and Betsan: The Big Balloon (bilingual)

    Author: Axel Scheffler Adapted by Eleri Huws
    Publisher: Rily
    Interest age: 0-6
    Reading age: 3-6

    Gydag anifeiliaid llawn cymeriad ar bob tudalen, mae llawer i’w ganfod a’i archwilio yn y stori hyfryd hon am gyfeillgarwch.

    Filled with characterful animals on every page, there’s lots to spot and explore in this cheering story about friendship.

  • Hide-and-Seek Pig

    Hide-and-Seek Pig

    Author: Julia Donaldson Illustrator: Axel Scheffler
    Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
    Interest age: 1+
    Reading age: 5+

    Help Pig find Hen by lifting the flaps on each page in this fun game of hide and seek.

  • Higgly Hen

    Higgly Hen

    Author: Axel Scheffler
    Publisher: Nosy Crow
    Interest age: 0-3
    Reading age: 4+

    Oh dear - Higgly Hen has lost her chicks! This friendly farmyard board book is a must for Scheffler fans. The addition of a fun sound button will amuse toddlers and adds an extra element of play.

  • Pip and Posy: The Bedtime Frog

    Pip and Posy: The Bedtime Frog

    Author: Axel Scheffler
    Publisher: Nosy Crow
    Interest age: 2+
    Reading age: 5+

    A beautifully illustrated and simply worded story about friendship and kindness. 

  • Pip and Posy: The Little Puddle

    Pip and Posy: The Little Puddle

    Author: Axel Scheffler
    Publisher: Nosy Crow
    Interest age: 2+
    Reading age: 5+

    Pip is having so much fun at Posy's house that he forgets he needs a wee...

  • Pip and Posy: The Scary Monster

    Pip and Posy: The Scary Monster

    Author: Axel Scheffler
    Publisher: Nosy Crow
    Interest age: 2+
    Reading age: 5+

    Full of lovely detail, this is a delightful story about being brave and taking turns

  • Pip and Posy: The Snowy Day

    Pip and Posy: The Snowy Day

    Author: Axel Scheffler
    Publisher: Nosy Crow
    Interest age: 2+
    Reading age: 5+

    • Posy wants to make a snowmouse and Pip wants to make a snowrabbit...
    • Colourful, engaging illustrations and a simple, lively story about friends falling out and making up.
    • Part of award-winning illustrator Axel Scheffler's series about the ups and downs of toddler life!

  • Pip and Posy: The Super Scooter

    Pip and Posy: The Super Scooter

    Author: Axel Scheffler
    Publisher: Nosy Crow
    Interest age: 1+
    Reading age: 5+

    Part of the endearing Pip and Posy series with gentle lessons for toddlers and preschoolers

  • 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.

  • Superworm

    Superworm

    Author: Julia Donaldson Illustrator: Axel Scheffler
    Publisher: Alison Green Books
    Interest age: 3+
    Reading age: 6+

    Superworm is a hero with a difference. Super-long and super-strong, he's always on hand to help out the other creatures - until the evil Wizard Lizard captures him.

  • Tales from Acorn Wood: Opposites

    Tales from Acorn Wood: Opposites

    Author: Julia Donaldson Illustrator: Axel Scheffler
    Publisher: Macmillan Children’s Books
    Interest age: 0-3

    Donaldson and Scheffler are already household names for those with young children, and now even the very newest members of the family can enjoy their work in this lovely board book about opposites, full of traditional illustration.

  • 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 Smartest Giant in Town

    The Smartest Giant in Town

    Author: Julia Donaldson Illustrator: Axel Scheffler
    Publisher: Macmillan Children's books
    Interest age: 4-7
    Reading age: 5+

    George is the scruffiest giant in town, so he buys a new outfit to smarten himself up. On the way home, however, he meets others who are in greater need of his clothes than he is...

  • 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.

  • Tiddler

    Tiddler

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

    Although he looks small and ordinary, Tiddler is a fish who loves to tell tall tales. But one day he is swept up in a fisherman's net and then thrown back in to an unfamiliar part of the sea.

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