Julia Donaldson Books in Order

This Songbirds phonics collection brings together seven illustrated stories for readers building confidence with early decoding skills. The stories include Tim’s bad mood, pen-pals, animal tails, pirates, and other everyday or imaginative subjects, with reading support focused on letter patterns.

A little old lady believes her home is far too small, so a wise old man advises her to bring in increasingly noisy farm animals. When she finally sends them out again, her familiar house feels wonderfully spacious.

A short children’s play about a badly behaved boy whose birthday celebration is visited by a conjuror. Written to be acted or read by ten children or an entire junior class, it turns the party into a theatrical birthday surprise.

In this short play adapted from an African traditional tale, Elephant and Hippo consider themselves too important to attend the turtles’ birthday party. The turtles answer their snub with a trick involving a tug-of-war, in a piece written for four beginner readers.

A short traditional-tale reader adapted by Julia Donaldson for Ginn’s All Aboard literacy programme. Presented at Pattern and Rhyme Stage 3, it uses the familiar town-mouse and country-mouse tale as material for children developing reading skills.

Teenager Andy advertises for a singer for his band, while his mother Carol places an advertisement for a cleaner. Their competing notices set off a farce of mistaken identities in this four-part play for older primary or lower secondary performers.

Royal Blue is a 1998 picture-book title credited to Julia Donaldson. No reliable catalog summary was available to establish its story, format details, or intended age range.

A Level 6 title in Julia Donaldson’s Songbirds phonics programme, created with Clare Kirtley. This short, fully decodable reader uses controlled sound patterns and staged progression to support children moving forward with independent reading.

A funny rhyming piece set in a station café, built around a customer calling for a waiter to remove unwanted cakes. Its language emphasizes repeated long-a vowel sounds, making the comic scenario part of a focused early-reading exercise.

Illustrated by Peter Bailey, this collection contains three stories for young readers. A king conceals a troubling secret, a remarkable dream launches an ambitious journey, and a clever girl must find a way to outwit the king.

A quick-thinking mouse walks through the deep, dark wood and evades hungry animals by describing a terrifying creature called the Gruffalo. The plan becomes much trickier when the imaginary monster turns out to be real.

Fox cannot find his socks, so readers lift flaps and search alongside him through the house. Along the way, he discovers plenty of other clothing in this rhyming Acorn Wood board book for toddlers.

Hen has hidden from Pig, and young readers can lift the flaps to help him search. This rhyming Acorn Wood board book turns a game of hide-and-seek into an interactive story for toddlers.

Tess is playing a computer game when its character, Jumping Jack, leaps out of the screen. As he bounds around making a mess, the children must work out what he is trying to find.

In this rhyming picture book illustrated by Axel Scheffler, Little Monkey is separated from his mother in the jungle. A kind butterfly tries to help, but keeps mistaking other animals for Monkey’s mum as the search continues.

Jane discovers that completing a jigsaw puzzle with her Grandpa can become an unexpected adventure. This short children’s story centers on puzzles and a grandparent-grandchild partnership.

In this lift-the-flap Acorn Wood board book, Bear sets out to deliver birthday invitations to Frog, Squirrel, and Mole. Young readers open flaps along the way as his friends’ responses lead toward a special surprise.

David has kept quiet about an embarrassing fact: his exuberant science teacher, Mr Jones, is his father. Hoping to invite a girl home without Dad interfering, he writes to an advice column, but its agony aunt makes the situation worse.

Rabbit is ready for a nap, but a succession of noisy visitors and interruptions makes sleep difficult. This lift-the-flap Acorn Wood board book invites toddlers to follow Rabbit’s increasingly disrupted attempt to doze off.

Rabbit hears a fearsome voice inside his burrow, claiming to belong to the Giant Jumperee. Cat, Bear, and Elephant attempt to help, but each is frightened off, leaving Rabbit to discover who—or what—is making the threats.

This Oxford Literacy Web Stage 7 book presents a traditional British tale in a classroom reading format. A Big Book version was also available for shared reading.

A short fantasy time-travel story created for developing readers. Its accompanying educational material emphasizes connecting information across a text and planning an alternative ending.

A young monkey is separated from his mother and asks a butterfly to help find her. But his vague clues send them to one mismatched animal after another, until he learns how to describe what makes his mother distinctive.

Chack the blackbird needs to get a message to Apollo the swallow, beginning a long, roundabout chain of communication. The journey follows animals across seas and deserts as the message passes from one creature to the next.

A friendly witch and her cat keep making room on their broom for animals they meet while flying through the wind. Their crowded journey brings them face to face with a hungry dragon, testing whether the companions can help one another.

Written as the diary of a Hypsilophodon, this adventure follows a dinosaur mother who falls through a mysterious pool into the modern world. While seeking a safe place for her eggs, she must protect her newly hatched brood when a farmer discovers one of them.

A songbook gathers nine children’s songs, including pieces based on The Gruffalo, A Squash and a Squeeze, and Monkey Puzzle. Illustrated by Axel Scheffler, it supplies vocal melodies with piano accompaniments and guitar chords, plus recordings of the songs.

The Highway Rat rides the roads like a highwayman, stealing buns, biscuits, and other treats from the animals he meets. As the Rat’s appetite and refusal to share grow ever more outrageous, his victims must contend with the self-styled thief.

A six-part Key Stage 1 play based on a traditional fable. Written for young readers to share aloud or perform, it gives a small group of children a compact, stage-ready story centered on the mysterious monster in a cave.

An activity and sticker book based on The Princess and the Wizard. More than 400 stickers accompany games and other activities inspired by the picture-book world of Princess Eliza and the wicked wizard.

Midsummer Dream is a 2002 children’s title credited to Julia Donaldson and Wendy Body. No reliable synopsis was available to establish the story or the exact nature of their contributions.

Night Monkey and Day Monkey each know only one side of their shared world, so their attempts to explain things like the moon and sun lead to comic misunderstandings. By comparing what they see, the two monkeys learn to understand each other and become friends.

Spinderella loves football but cannot count how many spiders belong on a team—or keep track of the score. With help from her Hairy Godmother, she learns the numbers she needs to join the game.

George, tired of being the scruffiest giant in town, buys a smart new outfit. On his way home, he meets animals in need and gradually gives away the very clothes that made him feel so grand.

A classroom-friendly courtroom play with twelve speaking roles, adaptable for a whole class. Wilf Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood must answer accusations that he broke in and ate someone.

Conjuror Cow takes the stage for a magic show and tries to produce a white rabbit from her hat. Young readers lift flaps to follow her increasingly unlikely tricks and see whether the act succeeds.

I Don’t Want To! is a 2003 children’s title credited to Julia Donaldson, with Karen Donnelly listed as a contributor. No reliable synopsis was available for this exact edition.

Shy Ellen’s reflection steps out of the mirror and declares herself Princess Mirror-Belle. Bossy, boastful, and full of wild ideas, the princess draws Ellen into a sequence of unexpected adventures.

This classroom-friendly historical play begins when Arthur Godbold finds a bronze head of Emperor Claudius in a Suffolk river in 1907. As he wonders how it arrived there, scenes from the Roman invasion of Britain unfold, involving Claudius, Boudicca, soldiers, and enslaved girls.

Shen is a village girl whose paintbrush can bring her pictures to life. When a greedy emperor learns of its power and demands riches, Shen must find a way to resist him.

A small sea snail longs to see the world beyond her rock, and a humpback whale offers her a ride. Their ocean journey takes an urgent turn when the whale needs help, giving the tiny traveler a chance to repay her friend.

After winning a contest to design a new breakfast cereal, cereal-loving Stephen must eat bowl after bowl while filming its television commercial. The experience changes his appetite in a surprising way.

After Ted the teddy falls from bed, three mice draw him into a nighttime escapade. This rhyming counting story follows his attempts to return to the sleeping child and his warm, familiar place.

A little hermit crab finds a shell but refuses to share it with a purple anemone and a bristleworm. Life in the rock pool soon shows Crab that each of his unwanted housemates has something important to contribute.

Three Jones children are collected by Jumbeelia, a young giant who discovers them in the human world and carries them to Groil. Trapped among giants and threatened by Jumbeelia’s brother Zab, they must use their wits to escape and get home.

Ignoring her father’s warning, the Gruffalo’s Child ventures alone into the snowy deep dark wood to search for the fabled Big Bad Mouse. Her nighttime expedition brings her face-to-face with the creatures from her father’s old story.

Finlay is a daydreamer who often gets things wrong. When he brings his puppy to school, his latest mistake threatens to land him in serious trouble.

This collection contains seventeen illustrated rhymes designed for children to perform as they read. Noises, movements, animal impressions, and playful actions invite young listeners to wriggle, roar, and join in.

Charlie begins reading a favorite book about a pirate, whose own favorite book opens another tale. The story travels through a chain of readers, genres, and characters before circling back to Charlie and his armchair.

At mealtime, Goose wants the chocolate mousse while the other animal guests make their own unruly choices. A simple rhyming picture book, it turns a shared meal into a comic lesson in manners, food, and cleanup.

This poetry collection, illustrated by Nick Sharratt, ranges from nonsense and number rhymes to poems about everyday life and quieter reflections. Its varied selection includes a fox-and-crow tale, school-visit questions, and a poem about the pleasure of reading.

Ellen’s extraordinary mirror image, Princess Mirror-Belle, returns for five mischievous adventures. From ballet and visits with grandparents to Halloween and a princess test, the irrepressible princess repeatedly turns ordinary occasions upside down.

A gust of wind snatches Rosie’s hat and sends it on a long series of adventures. As different animals and children find new uses for it, the rhyming tale asks whether Rosie will ever see it again.

Written for newly confident readers, this short story brings a fairy and a dentist together in an accessible fantasy adventure. François Hall’s illustrations accompany a tale designed for children beginning to read independently.

This short-story volume brings together The Jungle House and The Snake Who Came to Stay. Its two animal-filled tales feature creatures including guinea pigs, rabbits, snakes, and tigers, with illustrations by Philippe Dupasquier.

Frisk, an adventurous young fox, refuses to spend the day sleeping as his mother advises. Instead, he follows a little girl to school and discovers what lies beyond the den.

Bored with eating earth at every meal, Worm searches for tastier alternatives. His quest leads him toward danger in this very short play written for six beginner readers.

Two short phonics poems invite beginning readers to visit a fair and meet Clare and her bear. Rhymes and repeated sound patterns support a light, playful introduction to reading independently.

Tim and his dog dig up lots of mud in this very short Songbirds Phonics tale. The straightforward outdoor adventure provides beginning readers with a simple setting for practicing early sounds and words.

When Bob Bug falls ill, Doctor Duck is urgently summoned to help. This short Songbirds phonics story turns a simple medical emergency into an accessible adventure for beginning readers.

Hippo and a lively group of animal friends descend on a clothes shop for a boisterous try-on session. Their fashion choices cause comic confusion in a rhyming picture book about clothes, shopping, and imaginative play.

A harried teacher faces the demands of a busy school day in this compact Songbirds phonics story. Its humorous classroom setup and tightly controlled language are designed for children building early reading skills.

Mum Bug can fit a surprising number of items in her bag in this short, playful early reader. As part of the leveled Songbirds Phonics sequence, it supports children developing foundational reading skills.

Paula is a capable veterinarian whose ordinary morning of dogs and cats has begun to feel dull. Her wish for an unusual patient is answered in this rhyming Songbirds phonics story for developing readers.

This collection brings together eleven short plays for primary-age performers. Mixing adaptations of traditional tales with original contemporary pieces, it includes practical guidance on appropriate ages, running times, and cast sizes.

Ellen’s boastful mirror image, Princess Mirror-Belle, returns for four magical escapades. A flying horse, a runaway magic ball, a sea monster’s cave, and an unusual pet club bring fresh disruption to Ellen’s everyday world.

At a royal feast, a crowd of queens sits down to eat, but the tiniest guest presents a puzzle: what will she choose? This rhythmic Songbirds phonics tale turns the meal into a playful question.

A children’s songbook containing nine songs by Julia Donaldson, including songs connected with Room on the Broom, The Snail and the Whale, and The Smartest Giant in Town. Scores include piano accompaniment and guitar chords, with action songs designed for singing along.

A toddler and a cat turn Sam’s pot into a source of household chaos. This compact Songbirds Phonics story is for early readers and introduces the sounds s and g while reviewing a small set of earlier letters.

This rhyming early-reader story centers on a jolly father whose singing proves irritating. It is a Songbirds Phonics title that introduces ng while revisiting several previously learned letter patterns.

In this early phonics reader, Spike makes increasingly extravagant claims about what he can do, from driving and diving to fighting fires and feeding lions. The short comic tale introduces the “ie” sound through a lively sequence of boasts.

This simple nonfiction phonics book follows the transformation of tadpoles into frogs. It presents the life cycle in an accessible factual account while revising long-vowel sounds and spelling patterns introduced in earlier Stage 4 readers.

This lift-the-flap collection gathers three Tales from Acorn Wood stories: Postman Bear, Hide-and-Seek Pig, and Rabbit’s Nap. Rhyming text and sturdy flaps invite toddlers to follow the animal characters through each short adventure.

A mermaid is having tea beneath the sea when a greedy octopus decides he would like her for his meal. The story follows her response to this threatening underwater encounter.

Viv’s unexpected pet turns out to be a zog rather than any familiar household animal. Part of the Songbirds Phonics program, this brief story gives emerging readers a playful context for decoding practice.

Sandy and Bonny seem unable to stop arguing, and their luck is no better than their tempers. When a little man comes to stay, the pair face a chance for change in this retelling of a traditional Scottish tale.

On her birthday, Princess Eliza is captured by a wicked wizard and given a series of dreadful tasks. With help from her fairy godmother, she repeatedly changes shape and colour as she tries to outwit him and return home.

Ron Rabbit tries to get a rocket assembled from scraps off the ground. This compact Songbirds Phonics early reader turns the experiment into a simple story while practicing words containing consonant clusters.

A shopping trip becomes a muddle when a department-store mix-up disrupts a list of needed items. This brief Songbirds phonics story follows the confusion with accessible, patterned language for early readers.

Drake must outthink Snake when the predator threatens him. This concise Songbirds phonics tale follows Drake’s attempt to use a clever trick to escape, while giving early readers practice with long a sound patterns.

Nasim is a knight more interested in books, writing, and knitting than in battle. When a dragon calls for courage, he must find a way to meet the challenge on his own terms.

A boy uses odds and ends to make a homemade rabbit in this brief Songbirds phonics story. The imaginative project gives new readers a simple, playful narrative while they practise early sound patterns.

A cartoon-style early reader about two rival cats. The brief story is structured to support beginning phonics practice, focusing on short a and o sounds alongside a small set of introductory consonants.

Zak is a disobedient dog whose misadventure leaves him needing a visit to the vet. This very early phonics story uses the incident to introduce short e and a range of consonant sounds for new readers.

A 2007 Songbirds phonics title featuring Bob Bug and the Insect Club. Designed for developing readers, it revises earlier phonics work and gives particular attention to the oa spelling pattern.

Joan comes to stay with Megan, raising the question of whether she will enjoy the visit. This short Songbirds reader uses their meeting to revise phonics patterns taught in earlier stages.

Pirate Jack and Pirate Jade are both after the gold. Their rivalry drives a short Songbirds phonics adventure that revises spelling patterns and sounds introduced in the programme's earlier reading stages.

Ron Rabbit starts a new job and earns a medal in this short Songbirds phonics story. The controlled text reviews earlier sound patterns while introducing the ee pattern, helping children build reading confidence.

Little fish Tiddler is famous for spinning enormous excuses when he arrives late at school. After a fishing net carries him far from home, the stories he has scattered through the ocean may become the map that helps him return.

A brief phonics story in which the red and green figures from a traffic light go on holiday. It offers reading practice through a playful premise while revising phonics taught throughout the earlier Songbirds stages.

A visiting elf comes to school and gives every child a wish. This Songbirds phonics story for developing readers revises previous sound patterns while introducing the ie spelling pattern, as in tie.

Tiddler is a small fish who is forever late for school with an elaborate tale to explain why. When he is swept up in a fishing net and ends up far from home, the stories that have traveled through the sea may help guide him back.

Tim has a particularly bad day in this rhyming Songbirds story for developing readers. Its controlled text revisits earlier phonics patterns while giving practice with oo spelled as in food.

A duckbill dinosaur hatches in a tyrannosaurus nest and is branded Drip by his fierce new family. When danger reaches the duckbills, the small vegetarian must show that being different does not mean being weak.

Bob Bug faces a night-time fright in this very early Songbirds phonics story. The brief, decodable text introduces short i and u plus several consonant sounds while reviewing letters children have already met.

Ron Rabbit is tired of working as a waiter in this short Songbirds phonics story. The decodable text introduces wh while revising sh, ch, th, short vowels, and consonant sounds.

Twins bring a frog with them when they visit Gran, and their lively guest turns the call into an eventful one. This short Songbirds Phonics story gives developing readers practice with consonant clusters at the beginnings and ends of words.

The narrator's grandparents see Leroy as a sweet little boy, but the family knows better. From popping bubbles to dropping coins in the toilet, Leroy's noisy antics test everyone around him in this phonics reader.

With the milk jug empty and a hungry cat demanding food, Mrs Green sets out to milk the cow. Each possible solution reveals another problem, sending her through a comic chain of tasks before she can feed the cat.

A lively counting book set in a busy garden, where animals lend a hand with jobs from digging and raking to picking and pruning. Rhyming pairs and Nick Sharratt’s illustrations invite young children to count along from one to ten.

Queen Anneena hosts a feast for fifteen queens, but Queen Teeny Weeny refuses the plentiful dishes. The gathering becomes a search for the one thing she will eat in a short reader practising spellings for the long ee sound.

This lively Songbirds phonics story invites children to splash in a pond, squelch through mud, and leap like squirrels. Its controlled text gives early readers practice with consonant clusters at the beginnings and ends of words.

Stick Man is carried away from his family tree and repeatedly mistaken for something useful: a dog’s toy, a swan’s nesting material, and more. Through changing seasons and escalating mishaps, he struggles to return to Stick Lady Love and their three children.

At school, Sue Kangaroo proves a little too fond of collecting other people's things, including spoons and glue. This Songbirds Phonics story follows the mischief caused by the unusual new pupil while practising the ue sound.

Rick Duck faces Max Fox in a big match, but Max may be prepared to cheat to get the outcome he wants. The short Songbirds Phonics story introduces tch while revising early consonant and vowel patterns.

A phonics-based school-play story in which Cinderella’s slipper goes missing during the performance. Written for developing readers, the book introduces the letter patterns “er,” “ce,” and “ci” through a familiar fairy-tale setting.

A deer rescues a small earwig swept into a stream. When a hunter later threatens the deer, the earwig has a chance to return the favor in this Songbirds Phonics reader built around spellings for the long ear sound.

A mammoth sniffs a skunk with his long trunk in this compact comic phonics tale. The Songbirds Phonics reader focuses on consonant clusters at the beginnings and ends of words.

Mr and Mrs Brown live in a round house and do ordinary things in thoroughly upside-down ways, from reading the paper to dressing and baking. This comic Songbirds Phonics story focuses on the ow sound as in down, spelled ow and ou.

Bert is late, but he always has an explanation ready. His increasingly unusual excuses involve helping people and creatures in need, while this Songbirds Phonics reader practises the different spellings that make the ur sound.

A short Level 1+ Songbirds Phonics reader for beginning readers. Top Cat is feeling sleepy in a simple, decodable story that reinforces early letter-sound knowledge and supports children learning to blend sounds into words.

A short Songbirds Phonics guessing story asks readers to identify concealed things as they appear, from a jug and a bus to Tim and Top Cat. Its controlled text revises early letter-sound correspondences.

Bob Bug makes a mixture from a bun, jam, fruit, and nuts, then offers it to Mum and Dad. This brief Songbirds Phonics story supports beginning readers through decodable text and revision of early letter sounds.

A conjuror called Mr Zed arrives at Patrick's party, setting the stage for a short, decodable Songbirds Phonics story. The book revises earlier letter-sound patterns through a simple party-time adventure.

Kev is the first character to have a big, fat, red fun pen in this short cumulative tale. The decodable Songbirds Phonics reader reinforces early letter-sound knowledge and simple descriptive vocabulary.

A short Level 2 Songbirds Phonics reader for children developing early decoding skills. Ron Rabbit’s egg is at the center of the story, presented in a controlled, fully decodable format with guidance for adults inside the covers.

Teenager Leo runs to Glasgow, fleeing a troubled home and searching for the Chinese grandparents she has never met. After crossing paths with Finlay and other unlikely allies, she must find safety while someone from her past closes in.

A short play adapted from a Japanese folk tale. When doughnuts are stolen, a clever judge devises a way to identify the culprit, turning a small mystery into a lively piece for six primary-school performers.

Tabby McTat happily accompanies his busker owner, Fred, through the streets of London, singing for coins. When Fred is injured and the pair are separated, the loyal cat must navigate a new life while hoping they will meet again.

Tim and his dad hook an unusually strong cod, and the fish's pull lands Dad in the water. This very short Songbirds Phonics fishing story provides decodable practice with early sounds and rhyming words.

When Puff the cat knocks Beth's doll, Jill, into the rubbish bin, the bin men carry it away to the tip. Beth fears she has lost her doll in this highly decodable phonics story.

An activity book inspired by The Gruffalo’s Child, packed with puzzles, spot-the-difference challenges, drawing tasks, a crossword, and a reusable sticker scene. It gives children playful ways to revisit the characters and setting of the picture book.

A Songbirds Phonics Stage 2 collection designed to support beginning readers. It gathers six short stories, including “The Ox and the Yak,” with structured phonics practice and guidance intended to build confidence as children read.

While their owner sleeps, a set of pins and pegs spring to life. This compact Songbirds Phonics tale uses a playful household setup to give beginning readers practice with early letter-sound correspondences.

This decodable retelling of a traditional folk tale follows seven kids as they outwit a hungry fox. It gives beginning readers a simple narrative while revising letter-sound patterns introduced in earlier Songbirds levels.

An activity book based on The Smartest Giant in Town, with games, puzzles, coloring pages, join-the-dots, word activities, and a reusable sticker scene. Children can use its more than forty stickers to create their own giant-themed scenes and stories.

A hungry troll longs for a goat instead of his usual fish supper, while Hank Chief and his pirate crew search for buried treasure. Their separate misadventures bring them together in a comic picture-book adventure.

A World Book Day songbook based on Tyrannosaurus Drip. It supplies the song’s words, melody line, and chord symbols, inviting young readers and adults to sing along with the tale of an unlikely duckbill dinosaur raised among Tyrannosaurs.

A wobbly toddler leads human and animal friends on a noisy seaside walk toward the end of the pier. Rhythmic sound words and a cumulative procession invite very young children to join the journey aloud.

An activity companion to Tyrannosaurus Drip, this book extends the dinosaur story through games, puzzles, coloring pages, join-the-dots, and word activities. It also includes a sticker scene with reusable stickers for creating further dinosaur adventures.

On a noisy farm, two thieves plan to steal the farmer’s prize cow. The smallest and quietest creature, a ladybug, overhears them and works with the farm animals on a clever way to thwart the robbery.

Cave Baby lives with his family and a painted cast of prehistoric animals inside a cave. When a real woolly mammoth takes him on a midnight ride, the baby’s imaginative world and the wild outdoors meet.

When Freddie frees the fairy Bessie-Belle from a tree, she offers to grant his wishes. Freddie wants a pet, but his mumbling and the fairy’s hearing difficulty turn each wish into something unexpected until clearer communication is found.

An interactive Gruffalo play book containing magnetic pages, 60 character and scene magnets, and a miniature edition of The Gruffalo. Young readers can arrange the pieces to create and revisit adventures in the deep dark wood.

Zog is the most eager pupil at dragon school, but repeated mishaps complicate his lessons in roaring, flying, and breathing fire. A mysterious girl repeatedly helps him, especially when his final assignment is to capture a princess.

This toddler board book invites children to copy animal movements alongside Gruffalo characters. Young readers can wriggle like a snake, scamper like a fox, and growl like the Gruffalo while exploring action words.

A Gruffalo-themed first-concepts board book that introduces colours through creatures and objects found in nature. Simple examples, such as an orange butterfly and green leaves, give young children a playful way to identify and name colours.

The Gruffalo looks around the Deep Dark Wood and invites young readers to notice what is in view. This simple board book follows his observations of woodland sights, from trees and birds to insects, animals, and a mouse.

A portable Gruffalo board book made for babies and toddlers to take along on outings. It introduces the Gruffalo and characters from the Deep Dark Wood in a compact format fitted with a strap for attaching to a buggy.

When Jack’s granny develops the moozles, the only cure is fruit from the faraway flumflum tree. Jack and three companions sail to the Isle of Blowyernose, relying on Granny’s unusual packed supplies to face hazards on the way.

A chunky interactive board book for very young Gruffalo fans. Each spread invites children to explore tactile features, from the Gruffalo’s tusks and knees to his purple prickles, using simple artwork based on the original picture book.

A chunky board book that introduces early number concepts with the Gruffalo and other creatures from the Deep Dark Wood. Its brief, visual format is tailored to babies and toddlers beginning to recognize and count numbers.

A sturdy early-learning board book that uses the Gruffalo and familiar inhabitants of the Deep Dark Wood to introduce contrasting ideas. Designed for babies and toddlers, it pairs simple opposites with character-based illustrations.

An activity companion to the Tales from Acorn Wood books, featuring the series’ woodland characters. It supplies reusable stickers alongside colouring pages, games, puzzles, and other hands-on activities for young children.

A Gruffalo-themed Red Nose Day sticker activity book filled with games, jokes, recipes, colouring and drawing projects. It also includes more than 250 stickers and fundraising ideas connected with the charity event.

A collection of nine Julia Donaldson songs led by a number about the Gruffalo’s Child. Alongside familiar songs and action songs, the book presents illustrated material and musical notation with piano accompaniment and guitar chords.

An activity book for readers of The Princess and the Wizard, filled with colouring pages, join-the-dots, word puzzles, and more than 40 stickers. Its activities extend the magical picture-book setting for independent play at home or on holidays.

Rhyming Rabbit loves making poems about the world around him, but the other rabbits do not share his enthusiasm. Feeling lonely, he leaves home and travels underground, where his search for someone who understands him begins.

This two-story volume combines The Quick Brown Fox Cub and The Wrong Kind of Bark. In one tale, curious Frisk follows Jenny to school; in the other, dreamy Finlay brings his puppy into class.

In this phonics story, a babysitter faces the nighttime demands of a pair of twins who refuse to settle down. The controlled text revises earlier sounds while adding the oo spelling found in words such as good.

Goat joins the other animals for a day at playgroup, where instruments, dress-up clothes, and classroom activities offer plenty of fun. His enthusiastic participation also leads to a succession of comic muddles.

Jack welcomes a family of giant tourists and takes them around town in this short phonics play. The illustrated script supports early readers by introducing patterns including ure, soft g/dge, and ea.

This Level 5 Songbirds collection contains six phonics stories arranged to build reading confidence. Its title story follows a narrator frustrated by Leroy, a little brother whose mischievous habits include popping bubbles and dropping coins into the toilet.

A rhyming early-reader story follows a mother whose nonstop complaints shape a comic family episode. Created for Songbirds Phonics learners, it practices the long /oa/ sound through several spellings, including oa, ow, o-e, and o.

Elmo and his sister enjoy pretending in the empty jungle house next door, until Mr Birdsnest moves in and changes everything. When they become worried about their grandmother, the children return to the house for a daring rescue mission.

A girl tries to write a poem, only for her cat to repeatedly get in the way. This short rhyming Songbirds Phonics story reinforces sound patterns introduced across the earlier reading stages.

This Level 4 Songbirds collection contains six phonics stories with built-in reading progression. Its title story is a rhyming tale in which a cat repeatedly interrupts a girl who is trying to write a poem.

A colouring and drawing activity book based on Room on the Broom. It features the story’s characters and settings in scenes to colour, alongside open-ended drawing activities that invite children to add their own ideas.

This Level 3 Songbirds collection brings together six progressively structured phonics stories. In the title tale, Miss Hill tries to quiet Bill, the chattiest child in her class, while readers practise familiar sounds and the "oo" spelling pattern.

This two-story collection brings together Follow the Swallow and Spinderella, previously published as separate books. The volume presents both Julia Donaldson stories in one illustrated edition for young readers.

This Level 4 Songbirds volume collects six phonics stories with gradually developing reading practice. The title piece is a factual account of tadpoles’ transformation into frogs and revises long-vowel sounds and spelling patterns.

A nonfiction phonics reader explores the tails of animals and birds, using the topic to build reading confidence. It reviews sound patterns taught in earlier Songbirds stages and is illustrated by Carol Liddiment.

Teacher-support notes for Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds Phonics Level 2, accompanying Julia Donaldson’s early phonics readers. The material is designed for classroom use with beginning readers working on sound-letter correspondences at this level.

A hands-on companion to The Gruffalo, filled with scenes featuring the story’s characters to colour. It also offers drawing prompts that encourage children to create their own Gruffalo-inspired pictures and details.

A little girl makes a chain of paper dolls and sends them on an imaginative journey through her home and garden. The dolls evade make-believe dangers, but a pair of scissors brings a more serious threat to their adventure.

A Collins Big Cat companion workbook for The Pot of Gold reader. Puzzles, games, comprehension exercises, and writing tasks help children practise its vocabulary and language patterns while building reading and written-English skills.

Lured by promises of fame and fortune, a singing mermaid leaves her ocean home to join Sam Sly’s circus. Once she is confined in a tank, she longs for freedom and needs help from her new friends.

Polly opens a holiday home for pets, but its first guests create chaos. When Doris the snake disappears, she must find her before the missing pet threatens the guinea pigs.

This Level 3 Songbirds collection groups six phonics stories for developing readers. In the title story, readers search each illustration for a hidden snail while practising previously introduced sounds and the "ai" pattern in "snail."

This Level 6 Songbirds collection presents six phonics stories for more confident early readers. In the title story, Bert is regularly late and always has an excuse ready, while the text introduces several spellings for the long "ur" sound.

A Collins Big Cat companion workbook for Worm Looks for Lunch. It uses puzzles, games, comprehension exercises, and progressively structured writing tasks to reinforce vocabulary and language from the reader while supporting developing literacy skills.

Animals gather to make music for an unusual concert: Hedgehog hums, Squirrel plays guitar, and Badger takes the drums. Julia Donaldson’s rhythmic text introduces the animal performers, accompanied by Nick Sharratt’s illustrations.

In this short Bug Club play, Bird looks for a best friend who is strong enough to fit the role Bird has imagined. The animal characters’ search becomes a simple fable about what friendship and strength can mean.

A patient arrives with a strange-feeling elbow, and the doctor identifies it as a funny bone—then asks for a joke. This brief humorous play builds its scene around wordplay, doctor-patient dialogue, and reading aloud with expression.

Ben believes his dog joke is funny, but none of his friends understand why he is laughing. Written by Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore, this realistic-fiction play follows the awkward gap between telling a joke and having an audience get it.

A short fantasy play for beginning readers in which lessons take an unusual turn with Miss Green—who is, literally, green. Part of the Bug Club Plays range, it uses its classroom premise for shared reading and performance.

Selected by Julia Donaldson, this anthology gathers classic poems meant to be spoken by two or more voices. Clare Melinsky’s linocut illustrations accompany the selections, while end notes offer ideas for bringing each poem to performance.

The Reds and Blues face off in a school quiz, but the contest may not be decided simply by which side seems cleverest. This short humorous play turns a familiar school competition into a lively group-reading challenge.

A tab-index board book that uses Stick Man scenes to introduce early vocabulary. Young children encounter numbers, colours, animal sounds, and other simple words rather than following a new Stick Man adventure.

Sugarlump, a rocking horse, longs to see the world beyond the children’s bedroom. A unicorn turns him into a real horse, but adventures on a farm, racetrack, and circus teach Sugarlump to think carefully about what he wishes for.

Donaldson adapts the traditional tale as a short play: the Billy Goats Gruff need to cross the river, but a troll waits in the water. The script recasts the familiar confrontation for shared reading and performance.

A Bug Club play about Bill, who discovers treasure and tries to keep it hidden from everyone else in his village. The short script is designed for shared reading and acting, with a secret that drives its tension.

Julia Donaldson continues Edward Lear’s rhyme in a new nonsense-land adventure. After the Owl and Pussy-cat’s golden ring is stolen, the newlyweds leave the Bong-tree glade and follow the thief’s trail across the sea.

A family picnic becomes unexpectedly magical when a genie appears and offers three wishes. This fantasy play explores the complications that follow when wishes are granted, reminding its young cast to think carefully before making them.

A short Bug Club play based on the fable of a hare and a tortoise competing in a race. The action follows their contest from the starting line onward, making the well-known tale suitable for reading aloud and acting.

Hen is sitting on her eggs when one suddenly cracks. This short humorous play follows the anticipation over what might hatch, offering young readers a simple, performable animal story with roles to read aloud.

Rose Rumbletum is arrested for smelling cakes at a baker’s shop, raising an unusual question: can that really be a crime? This short realistic-fiction play invites young readers to follow the case and decide what they think.

A Christmas-themed play for young readers in which socks left by the chimney may be claimed by something other than Father Christmas. The story turns a familiar holiday custom into a playful encounter with the Sockosaurus.

A hungry tiger is a dangerous creature to meet, so quick thinking is essential. This short adventure play places young readers in a tense encounter where the characters must find a way to avoid becoming the tiger’s next meal.

A little ghost wants Lydia Lou to wake up and be scared, but she sleeps through every attempt. He recruits increasingly noisy animal friends, creating a rhyming, sound-filled bedtime story that invites young listeners to join in.

A My First Gruffalo jigsaw board book that builds early counting skills with five puzzles. Children count from one to five alongside Mouse, Snake, Fox, Owl, and the Gruffalo as they fit together the sturdy puzzle pieces.

A chunky My First Gruffalo jigsaw board book that introduces colours through five simple puzzles. Young children meet familiar woodland characters, assemble four-piece scenes, and look for a colourful object in each completed picture.

When Ellen has chicken pox, her mischievous double, Princess Mirror-Belle, insists it is dragon pox instead. Mirror-Belle emerges from the bathroom mirror with imaginative remedies, turning an itchy day into a magical and messy adventure.

The Emperor's Head is a 2014 Roman-themed play credited to Julia Donaldson. No reliable catalog synopsis was available to confirm its exact story or classroom format.

After the family leaves for the day, bath toys take off in a magical flying bathtub to help animals in trouble. Whether washing a muddy piglet or tackling an emergency, they make sure to return home in time for the children’s bath.

A Gruffalo-themed outdoor activity and sticker book for young nature explorers. It combines a spotter’s guide with prompts to observe, listen, collect, and take part in nature-based activities beyond the page.

A child-friendly script adaptation of The Gruffalo, arranged for rehearsals and performance at school or home. Colour-coded parts, staging guidance, group-production advice, activities, and the music and lyrics for the Gruffalo song help young performers bring the woodland story to the stage.

Betty O’Barley and Harry O’Hay are planning their ideal scarecrow wedding, but Reginald Rake intends to spoil it. When Harry goes in search of the final wedding gift, he must find the courage to protect their long-awaited celebration.

A Tiddler-themed activity book with reusable stickers, colouring, puzzles, recipes, bunting, and make-and-play items such as finger puppets. It invites children to extend the undersea world of Tiddler through drawing, problem-solving, and craft activities.

This two-story Acorn Wood volume combines Pig’s hide-and-seek game with Bear’s round of letter deliveries. Lift the flaps to help Pig find Hen, then follow Postman Bear as a special birthday surprise is revealed.

Ellen’s mischievous mirror double, Princess Mirror-Belle, returns for a set of magical everyday escapades. Birthdays, a fair, and the start of a new school all become opportunities for the irrepressible princess to create trouble.

Two Acorn Wood lift-the-flap tales appear together: Rabbit searches for a peaceful place to sleep, while Fox tries to locate his missing socks. Rhyming text and concealed surprises invite toddlers to take part in both woodland quests.

A collection of short, join-in poems for young children, illustrated by Nick Sharratt. The verses range across animals, counting, summer, sounds, and movement, inviting readers to clatter, patter, gallop, slide, shuffle, and squelch.

This sturdy tabbed board book sends toddlers into the deep dark wood to find the Gruffalo and other familiar characters. Each page offers simple pictures and words to spot and say, supporting shared play and early vocabulary.

A Gruffalo-themed autumn activity book that takes young explorers outdoors to notice the changing season. With a spotter’s guide, autumn activities, and hundreds of stickers, it prompts children to look closely, listen, collect, and learn from nature.

A spring-themed Gruffalo activity book for young nature explorers. It encourages children to head outdoors to spot seasonal plants and animals, record what they find, complete creative activities, and use the included stickers and spotter’s guide.

A summer outdoor activity guide featuring the Gruffalo and familiar woodland themes. Young readers are invited to observe, collect, and explore the natural world through seasonal activities, a spotter’s guide, and a large collection of stickers.

A winter-themed Gruffalo activity guide that takes young nature explorers outdoors to look, listen, and collect. It pairs a seasonal spotter’s guide with indoor and outdoor activities and stickers, using the familiar woodland world to encourage close attention to nature.

An activity book based on The Highway Rat, filled with reusable stickers, coloring pages, puzzles, recipes, decorations, and make-and-play projects. Its games include mazes, dot-to-dots, word searches, and other hands-on activities for young fans of the story.

Jackdaw wants to invite the other animals to his party, but cannot understand why they keep touching their heads instead of answering. Created with deaf children, this rhyming picture book uses the mystery to introduce sign language and friendship.

Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len return to the farm after jail, now plotting to steal the fat red hen. The quiet ladybird and her animal friends overhear them and devise another clever way to foil the thieves.

Young children lift the flaps to discover who is hiding around the deep dark wood in this Gruffalo board book. Simple prompts turn familiar animal characters into an interactive guessing game for sharing and naming.

A collection of the words to twenty-six Julia Donaldson songs, illustrated by Axel Scheffler. It includes songs inspired by familiar picture books, retellings of Aesop’s fables, and action songs, with a QR code linking readers to audio performances.

In two festive Princess Mirror-Belle stories, Ellen’s unruly mirror-double disrupts a Christmas ballet, a costume party, and an attempt to catch Father Christmas. The book also includes seasonal make-and-do activities.

A child-friendly Gruffalo cookbook with 24 recipes for simple meals, snacks, and sweet treats inspired by the deep dark wood. Step-by-step directions and practical tips support adults cooking alongside children.

Mouse travels through the deep dark wood with Snake, Owl, and Fox to discover who is making a growling noise. This preschool board book includes a chunky sound button for young children to press.

This early-reading pack combines seven Songbirds phonics stories with games and follow-up activities. Reward stickers and practical tips for parents support children as they build early decoding and reading skills at home.

A counting activity book that introduces numbers one through ten with animals from Julia Donaldson and Nick Sharratt’s books. Games, puzzles, and large stickers invite young children to practise counting while completing lively animal scenes.

An animal-themed sticker book drawing on Julia Donaldson and Nick Sharratt’s toddler books. Young children tackle simple mazes, searches, and sticker scenes featuring familiar animal characters, with large stickers designed for small hands.

Ellen’s reflection, the mischievous Princess Mirror-Belle, steps out of the bathroom mirror and turns ordinary days upside down. This collection follows their escapades with furry friends, Halloween festivities, and a princess test.

Ellen’s mischievous mirror-double joins her seaside holiday, bringing disruption wherever she goes. This collection of Princess Mirror-Belle adventures also includes the return of Prince Precious Paws.

An interactive sound book based on Zog’s dragon-school lessons. Children use Zog’s detachable star as a wand to activate sounds while joining him in roaring, flying, and cheering.

A sticker activity book based on Sugarlump and the Unicorn. Sticker scenes, puzzles, and games accompany the rocking horse’s wish-filled adventure, with more than 400 stickers for children to use as they explore the story’s farm, racetrack, and circus settings.

Nell is Peter’s dog and a remarkable scent detective, solving everyday mysteries with her powerful nose. When every book vanishes from Peter’s school, Nell and the class follow the trail to uncover what happened.

This Gruffalo annual combines short stories with puzzles, games, crafts, recipes, quizzes, drawing, writing, and coloring activities. Its contents feature familiar characters from the deep dark wood.

A sticker activity book based on The Singing Mermaid, with games and hands-on activities set in the picture book’s seaside world. It includes more than 400 stickers for children to use as they play through the mermaid-themed pages.

An adapted, color-coded script that lets children stage What the Ladybird Heard at home or school. It provides speaking parts, staging and prop advice, themed activity ideas, and mask templates for the farmyard characters.

A baby finds everyday activities disrupted by unexpected animals: a mole in the bowl, a hare on the chair, and more surprises. This lift-the-flap board book uses simple rhymes and actions, with a companion sing-along song.

The class mascot enjoys weekends with the children of Class One until he slips unnoticed from new pupil Matt’s backpack. Swept into an unexpected journey through the town and beyond, the little bear must somehow find his way back to school.

This Gruffalo and Friends annual gathers stories, puzzles, crafts, recipes, quizzes, games, drawing, writing, and colouring activities. Its pages feature characters from The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, The Snail and the Whale, and other Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler books.

A preschool-friendly interactive retelling inspired by The Gruffalo. Readers use the included Gruffalo hand puppet while Mouse encounters Fox, Owl, and Snake in the deep dark wood, then explore tactile details such as the Gruffalo’s nose and prickles.

Based on The Highway Rat, this activity book brings the story’s characters into colouring pages, dot-to-dots, mazes, spot-the-difference challenges, and simple word searches. Reusable stickers add another way for young readers to play with the highway-themed adventure.

A sticker activity book inspired by The Rhyming Rabbit. Children join the rhyme-loving rabbit and his animal friends through sticker scenes, puzzles, and games, using more than 400 stickers along the way.

Wildebeest, Warthog, Spotted Hyena, Lappet-Faced Vulture, and Marabou Stork are known as the Ugly Five. This rhyming safari story follows the much-maligned animals and asks readers to look beyond appearances, while celebrating the care they show their young.

A performance script adapting What the Ladybird Heard Next for children to stage at school or home. It uses colour-coded character parts and includes practical ideas for rehearsals, props, staging, activities, and masks for the main characters.

The detective ladybird is holidaying at the zoo when Lanky Len and Hefty Hugh devise a bold new theft. As the pair plan to use a monkey in their attempt to take the Queen’s crown, the tiny listener must find a way to stop them.

A lift-the-flap farm adventure for young children, based on the What the Ladybird Heard picture books. Each spread invites readers to find animals and familiar characters, including the two bungling thieves and the little ladybird hiding nearby.

A sound-book introduction to Room on the Broom for younger readers. The witch, her cat, and their animal friends fly overhead, while children can press a specially designed feature to add a whooshing sound to the short interactive story.

Princess Pearl, Sir Gadabout, and Zog travel together as flying doctors, helping patients from a sunburnt mermaid to a sneezing lion. When Pearl’s uncle insists that a princess cannot be a doctor, the team faces a challenge that puts her calling to the test.

A rhyming animal alphabet book that turns each letter into a guessing game. Shaped pages, peep-through details, and fold-out flaps encourage children to compare a lively assortment of animals and explore descriptive words.

Steven Rice loves cereal so much that he eats it for every meal. When a competition invites children to invent a new cereal, he eagerly enters—only to discover that his breakfast obsession has unexpected consequences.