The wildly successful children’s author Julia Donaldson recalls how her grandmother’s readings of Edward Lear’s poems sparked her creative imagination. By way of homage, her latest book ...

Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson has written a poem in protest at planned library closures. The Gruffalo author, who was awarded the MBE last year, has written the poem to mark National ...

Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson has written a poem protesting against planned library closures across the UK. The children's laureate's 22-line rhyming couplet includes lines like "Read that book ...

Donaldson's own family life sounds amazingly wholesome. Born Julia Catherine Shields in 1948 ... and the slightly plaintive note in his poems: 'Far and few, far and few, are the lands where ...

Doctor Malcolm Donaldson, the husband of The Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson, has died aged 75. Dr Donaldson was a paediatric consultant and senior lecturer in child health at the University of ...

Julia Donaldson is launching a weekly broadcast ... The Gruffalo's Child author will perform stories, songs and poems, and will be joined by her husband. Illustrators from her books, including ...

The whole poem isn’t nonsense: there can be an underlying emotional sense to it. The ‘nonsense’ comes in the language. Lear loved creating words like ‘runcible’ and places such as the ...

Donaldson's poem lists all the reasons why she loves libraries Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson has written a poem protesting against planned library closures across the UK. The children's laureate ...