Children's author Julia Donaldson was only five years old when she decided she wanted to be a writer. After being given a book of poems for her birthday by her father, she memorised them and began ...

'He bestrides children’s publishing like a colossus': Author Julia Donaldson with a Gruffalo cushion - Clara Molden He has terrible tusks, terrible claws, terrible teeth in his terrible jaws, knobbly ...

After more than 20 years roaming the deep dark wood, the Gruffalo is coming back in a new book, which author Julia Donaldson says she was spurred to write by a campaign to reverse a decline in ...

World Book Day has announced its list of 15 books, written by the likes of Joseph Coehlo, Stephen Mangan, Julia Donaldson and Benjamin Dean, to be made available for free with a £1/€1.50 book token on ...