Join two crafty robbers, one crime-busting ladybird and a farmyard full of noisy animals in this fun sticker activity book, based on the bestselling picture book, What the Ladybird Heard by stellar picture-book partnership Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, creators of Sugarlump and the Unicorn and The Singing Mermaid. At weekends she and Malcolm took part in the Bristol Street Theatre, a group of mainly postgraduate students inspired by the late playwright David Illingworth.

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The illustrations in the book are beautiful and I can see that children from Early Years to lower KS2 would enjoy the book in different contexts. The Julia Donaldson/Axel Scheffler combination has once more turned up with a winner in this colourful story that all happens under the sea! Tiddler’ is the story of a little fish telling tall tales, who goes on a very big adventure (there are obvious echoes and influences here of Disney’s Nemo) – it is a circular story and a very pleasing one. Why not try some of our favourite books for 4-year-olds - slightly longer stories they'll love chatting to you about. She then thought of the idea of a monster whose name would end in O (to rhyme with "doesn't he know").Donaldson sent the text to Axel Scheffler, whom she had met only once or twice, briefly, following the publication of A Squash and a Squeeze.

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Packed with sticker scenes, puzzles, games and over 400 stickers, Sugarlump and the Unicorn Sticker Book is ideal for unicorn lovers and perfect for birthdays, rainy days and school holidays – a great gift for any child. For example on the first day he says he was riding on a seahorse, flying with a ray and diving with a dolphin. But life in the rock pool proves tougher than Crab thinks and he soon finds he needs his new housemates.The inspiration for Mirror-Belle was Hamish's imaginary childhood friend Sammy, who lived behind a wardrobe mirror. 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. Elizabeth, also a good German speaker with a degree in languages, meanwhile did war work in the WRNS. A typical public event consists of acting out (more or less word-for-word) four stories, and singing three or four songs (mostly from Donaldson's three albums of songs – The Gruffalo Song and Other Songs, Room on the Broom and Other Songs and The Gruffalo's Child and Other Songs).

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Visit the farm in the brilliantly funny A Squash and a Squeeze, the first-ever picture book written and illustrated by the unparalleled picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler! Packed with sticker scenes, puzzles, games and over 400 stickers, What the Ladybird Heard Sticker Book is perfect for birthdays, rainy days and school holidays – a great gift for any child. They've been stealing eggs from the fat red hen, but now they're setting their sights higher and are planning to steal the fat red hen herself!Donaldson's parents, James (always known as Jerry) and Elizabeth, met shortly before the Second World War, which then separated them for six years. In August 1974 the couple moved to Brighton where Donaldson had been appointed as editor at Robert Tyndall, a small book publishers. Classmate little Johnny Dory loves Tiddler's tall tales so much he tells them to his granny and hence the stories spread far and wide.