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What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday (Board Book) Award-winning author/illustrator

by Julia Donaldson (author) and Lydia Monks (illustrator) (UK edition)

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Suitable for 0 - 2 years

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Product description

Psst! Have you heard the word about your favourite ladybird? She’s heading to the big city for a well-deserved break. She strolls in the park, visits the palace and rides on a river-boat. But naughty crooks Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len are up to their tricks again. They’ve hatched a wicked plan to kidnap Monkey Joe, and force him to steal the Queen’s crown! Oh no! Will the ladybird be able to stop this terrible two – with some help from the noisy animals at the zoo?

A comical rhyme from the bestselling Ladybird series

Written by the all-time favourite author of The Gruffalo

Glitter on every page, plus Lydia Monks’s lovely artwork

Features the Queen – and lots of very noisy zoo animals!

Product Details

Catalogue number

27 in EU Primary Summer 2020

Format

Board Book

ISBN

9781509892495

Publisher

Macmillan Children's Books

Date published

April 4th, 2019

Other details

30 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Julia Donaldson

Julia Donaldson is author of many of today’s best-loved picture books including The Gruffalo and Stick Man. Best known for her collaborations with Axel Scheffler, each of these vivid rhyming stories is a triumph of imagination. She was also the Children’s Laureate 2011-2013.

More about Julia: “I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him).

Mary and I were always creating imaginary characters and mimicking real ones, and I used to write shows and choreograph ballets for us.

I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar-playing medic to whom I’m now married.

Before Malcolm and I had our three sons we used to go busking together and I would write special songs for each country; the best one was in Italian about pasta.

The busking led to a career in singing and songwriting, mainly for children’s television.

One of my television songs, A Squash and a Squeeze, was made into a book in 1993, with illustrations by the wonderful Axel Scheffler. It was great to hold the book in my hand without it vanishing in the air the way the songs did. This prompted me to unearth some plays I’d written for a school reading group, and since then I’ve had 20 plays published.

My real breakthrough was The Gruffalo, again illustrated by Axel. We work separately – he’s in London and I’m in Glasgow – but he sends me letters with lovely funny pictures on the envelopes.

My novel The Giants and the Joneses is going to be made into a film by the same team who made the Harry Potter movies, and I have written three books of stories about the anarchic Princess Mirror-Belle who appears from the mirror and disrupts the life of an otherwise ordinary eight-year-old.

When I’m not writing I am often performing, at book festivals and in theatres. I really enjoy getting the children in the audience to help me act out the stories and sing the songs.”