Julia Donaldson has written some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which together have sold over 25 million copies worldwide and have been translated into over one hundred languages. It's a warm and humorous story about a monkey that lives in the night that meets the day monkey and sees all the daytime delights of animals and sights that the daylight brings (and vice versa).

She was the UK Children’s Laureate 2011–13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. She has previously illustrated Mairi’s Mermaid, Night Monkey, Day Monkey and wrote and illustrated the picture book The Magic Sky. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Night Monkey and Day Monkey both live in the same jungle but their lives are worlds apart until one day Night Monkey wakes up in the day and Day Monkey wakes in the night.

Among her acclaimed titles are The Gruffalo, What the Ladybird Heard, Stick Man, Zog, The Smeds and the Smoos, The Scarecrows\' Wedding and Night Monkey, Day Monkey. Full of fun and food for thought, Night Monkey, Day Monkey is beautifully illustrated by Lucy Richards. 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 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. Night monkey is baffled by the brightness of the sun and confuses moths for butterflies and giants for chimpanzees.Julia Donaldson is a former Children’s Laureate and the author of the internationally bestselling book The Gruffalo, as well as numerous other popular titles. The humorous rhyming text and sweet illustrations tell a lovely story about the importance of sharing each other's experiences and seeing the world in different ways. From the multi-award-winning author of a string of beloved contemporary classics, including The Hospital Dog, The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, Stick Man, Room on the Broom, The Smeds and the Smoos, Zog, What the Ladybird Heard and Spinderella. One of the finest stories from Julia Donaldson, the author behind The Gruffalo , Room on the Broom , The Scarecrow's Wedding and What the Ladybird Heard .

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Joanna Geyer-Kordesch has a distinguished academic career bridging the disciplines of history of medicine and cultural history as embodied in our landscapes. Julia Donaldson Julia Donaldson is the best-selling author of The Gruffalo, The Giants and the Joneses, The Wrong Kind of Bark, Spinderella and Night Monkey, Day Monkey. I bought this for a birthday gift as I thought the book and toy combo would be great for a two-year-old.She has illustrated texts with Michael Morpurgo and Julia Donaldson, as well as writing and illustrating her own book ‘The Magic Sky’. Other than that, it is one of our favourite books and has opened up a lot of exploring from my daughter.

Julia Donaldson’s beloved rhyming picture book story about two monkeys who are as different as night and day yet still learn to be friends – with adorable, sumptuous illustrations from Lucy Richards. It's a beautifully written book however I have dropped a star because of how hard this is to read at bedtime in dim lighting. Julia Donaldson's collaborations with Axel Scheffler have sold millions of copies, and Room on the Broom is now an Academy Award-nominated short film. It's important to read to your child early and though probably more likely to listen when they are many months older as they sleep alot to begin with it's still nice for them to recognise the tone and sound of your voice. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners.

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