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Julia Catherine Donaldson CBE (née Shields; born 16 September 1948) is an English writer and playwright, and the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate. She is best known for her popular rhyming stories for children, especially those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which include The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom and Stick Man. She originally wrote songs ...
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Biography - Julia Donaldson. I grew up in London, in a tall Victorian terraced house. My granny lived at the top and my uncle and aunt were on the middle floor. My parents, younger sister Mary and I shared the ground floor with our cat Geoffrey. (He was really a prince in disguise. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him.)
Julia Donaldson has written some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, which together have sold over 25 million copies worldwide and have been translated into over one hundred languages.
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Educational. Songbird Phonics. Storytelling. Plays. For small groups. Bug Club “Plays to Read”. For a whole class. Bug Club “Plays to Act”. For adults to act.
Julia Donaldson was born on 16 September 1948 in Hampstead, London, England, UK. She is a writer and actress, known for Princess Mirror-Belle (2021), The Giants of Groil and The Gruffalo (2002). She has been married to Malcolm Donaldson since 1972.
