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
Author: Julia Donaldson
Illustrator: Axel Scheffler
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Interest age: 3+
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
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
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
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 (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.
Farmyard Friends: Portly Pig
Author: Axel Scheffler
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Interest age: 1-3
Portly Pig is worried about being too clean. The grass is too pristine and the flowers and trees are too neat, so he goes to find somewhere muckier. Yet when Portly finds a nice muddy puddle to roll in, grey clouds appear and Portly gets washed clean again. What’s a pig to do?
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.
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 Christmas Tree
Author: Axel Scheffler
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Interest age: 2-4
Pip and Posy are putting up the Christmas tree. Mysteriously, when Posy goes to get some candy, she returns to find that one of the biscuits has gone. What happened? And why does Pip suddenly feel sick? A lovely picture book with a gentle moral.
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.