Julia Donaldson Books in Order

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.