‘I’ve acted the Gruffalo five billion times and I know it completely by heart, but I found the snake and things quite scary’ When he was working on the illustrations for Julia Donaldson’s The Snail and the Whale , a few years after their hugely successful picture book The Gruffalo , Axel Scheffler had the idea that one of the children on the beach in the story could be drawing a gruffalo in the …
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A life in children’s books: Julia Donaldson (Guardian Unlimited)
