The thrilling tale of a tiny snail and a great big grey-blue humpback whale...
Julia Donaldson is the outrageously talented, prize-winning author
of the world's best-loved picture books, and was the 2011-2013 UK
Children's Laureate. Her books include Room on the Broom, What the
Ladybird Heard and the modern classic The Gruffalo, which has sold
over 13.5 million copies worldwide and has been translated into
over sixty languages. Julia also writes fiction as well as poems,
plays and songs and her brilliant live children's shows are always
in demand. Julia and her husband Malcolm divide their time between
Sussex and Edinburgh.
Axel Scheffler is a star illustrator whose instantly recognisable,
warm and witty illustrations have achieved worldwide acclaim and
numerous awards. In addition to his picture books, Axel is the
illustrator of wonderful novelty and gift books for Macmillan, such
as the bestselling The Bedtime Bear, The Tickle Book and Mother
Goose's Nursery Rhymes. He also illustrates the popular Pip and
Posy series. Born in Hamburg, Axel now lives with his family in
London.
My readers collapsed in heaps, and then had to have it read
again.
*Guardian*
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