Julia Donaldson is an English writer, playwright and performer. She is best known for her popular rhyming stories for children. Of her 184 published works, 64 are widely available in bookshops. She has been awarded a CBE for services to children’s literature and the arts.
About Julia Donaldson in brief
Julia Donaldson is an English writer, playwright and performer. She is best known for her popular rhyming stories for children, especially those illustrated by Axel Scheffler. Donaldson was born in London and brought up in Hampstead, London, with her younger sister Mary. Of her 184 published works, 64 are widely available in bookshops. The remaining 120 are intended for school use and include her Songbirds phonic reading scheme, which is part of the Oxford University Press’s Oxford Reading Tree. She originally wrote songs for children’s television but has concentrated on writing books since the words of one of her songs, \”A Squash and a Squeeze\”, were made into a children’s book in 1993. She was the 2011–2013 Children’s Laureate for the British Academy of Children’s Literature. She has been awarded a CBE for services to children’s literature and the arts, and a knighthood for her services to drama and the performing arts, in addition to her honours degree in Drama and French. She currently lives in London with her husband and two children. She also has a son, Jerry, who is a professional musician and a son-in-law, Chris, who works in the film industry and has been a director and producer for several years. She lives with her family in London, where she has written a book about her childhood, The Gruffalo, and has written several children’s books and a children’s book series, including Room on the Broom and Stick Man.
She and her husband have a daughter, Charlotte, who has been with him since he was a teenager and now lives in New York with his wife, Charlotte and their son, Ben, and their daughter, Jack, in the United States. They also have a son named James, who lives in the UK with his parents, James and Elizabeth, and who works as a consultant for the BBC. She had a daughter named Mary, who was also born in 1948 and is now a freelance writer and producer. She wrote a book on the life of her mother, Mary Donaldson, about her experiences as a single mother in the 1950s and 1960s. She now has a book of her own about her own life, The Life of Julia Donaldson: A Memoir, published by Simon & Schuster, £16.99, with a foreword by David Walliams. The book also includes a biography of her father, James, as well as a short biography of his mother, Elizabeth and her sister, Mary. It is published by Thames & Hudson, priced £12.99. For more information, visit www.juliadonaldson.co.uk or go to www.samaritans.org/Julia-Donaldson-The-Life-of-Julia. The Gruffalo and Stick Man are both available in hardback and paperback for £9.99 each.
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