Julia Donaldson Books in Order

Ellen’s mischievous mirror double, Princess Mirror-Belle, returns for a set of magical everyday escapades. Birthdays, a fair, and the start of a new school all become opportunities for the irrepressible princess to create trouble.

Two Acorn Wood lift-the-flap tales appear together: Rabbit searches for a peaceful place to sleep, while Fox tries to locate his missing socks. Rhyming text and concealed surprises invite toddlers to take part in both woodland quests.

A collection of short, join-in poems for young children, illustrated by Nick Sharratt. The verses range across animals, counting, summer, sounds, and movement, inviting readers to clatter, patter, gallop, slide, shuffle, and squelch.

This sturdy tabbed board book sends toddlers into the deep dark wood to find the Gruffalo and other familiar characters. Each page offers simple pictures and words to spot and say, supporting shared play and early vocabulary.

A Gruffalo-themed autumn activity book that takes young explorers outdoors to notice the changing season. With a spotter’s guide, autumn activities, and hundreds of stickers, it prompts children to look closely, listen, collect, and learn from nature.

A spring-themed Gruffalo activity book for young nature explorers. It encourages children to head outdoors to spot seasonal plants and animals, record what they find, complete creative activities, and use the included stickers and spotter’s guide.

A summer outdoor activity guide featuring the Gruffalo and familiar woodland themes. Young readers are invited to observe, collect, and explore the natural world through seasonal activities, a spotter’s guide, and a large collection of stickers.

A winter-themed Gruffalo activity guide that takes young nature explorers outdoors to look, listen, and collect. It pairs a seasonal spotter’s guide with indoor and outdoor activities and stickers, using the familiar woodland world to encourage close attention to nature.

An activity book based on The Highway Rat, filled with reusable stickers, coloring pages, puzzles, recipes, decorations, and make-and-play projects. Its games include mazes, dot-to-dots, word searches, and other hands-on activities for young fans of the story.

Jackdaw wants to invite the other animals to his party, but cannot understand why they keep touching their heads instead of answering. Created with deaf children, this rhyming picture book uses the mystery to introduce sign language and friendship.

Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len return to the farm after jail, now plotting to steal the fat red hen. The quiet ladybird and her animal friends overhear them and devise another clever way to foil the thieves.

Young children lift the flaps to discover who is hiding around the deep dark wood in this Gruffalo board book. Simple prompts turn familiar animal characters into an interactive guessing game for sharing and naming.

A collection of the words to twenty-six Julia Donaldson songs, illustrated by Axel Scheffler. It includes songs inspired by familiar picture books, retellings of Aesop’s fables, and action songs, with a QR code linking readers to audio performances.

In two festive Princess Mirror-Belle stories, Ellen’s unruly mirror-double disrupts a Christmas ballet, a costume party, and an attempt to catch Father Christmas. The book also includes seasonal make-and-do activities.

A child-friendly Gruffalo cookbook with 24 recipes for simple meals, snacks, and sweet treats inspired by the deep dark wood. Step-by-step directions and practical tips support adults cooking alongside children.

Mouse travels through the deep dark wood with Snake, Owl, and Fox to discover who is making a growling noise. This preschool board book includes a chunky sound button for young children to press.

This early-reading pack combines seven Songbirds phonics stories with games and follow-up activities. Reward stickers and practical tips for parents support children as they build early decoding and reading skills at home.

A counting activity book that introduces numbers one through ten with animals from Julia Donaldson and Nick Sharratt’s books. Games, puzzles, and large stickers invite young children to practise counting while completing lively animal scenes.

An animal-themed sticker book drawing on Julia Donaldson and Nick Sharratt’s toddler books. Young children tackle simple mazes, searches, and sticker scenes featuring familiar animal characters, with large stickers designed for small hands.

Ellen’s reflection, the mischievous Princess Mirror-Belle, steps out of the bathroom mirror and turns ordinary days upside down. This collection follows their escapades with furry friends, Halloween festivities, and a princess test.

Ellen’s mischievous mirror-double joins her seaside holiday, bringing disruption wherever she goes. This collection of Princess Mirror-Belle adventures also includes the return of Prince Precious Paws.

An interactive sound book based on Zog’s dragon-school lessons. Children use Zog’s detachable star as a wand to activate sounds while joining him in roaring, flying, and cheering.

A sticker activity book based on Sugarlump and the Unicorn. Sticker scenes, puzzles, and games accompany the rocking horse’s wish-filled adventure, with more than 400 stickers for children to use as they explore the story’s farm, racetrack, and circus settings.

Nell is Peter’s dog and a remarkable scent detective, solving everyday mysteries with her powerful nose. When every book vanishes from Peter’s school, Nell and the class follow the trail to uncover what happened.

This Gruffalo annual combines short stories with puzzles, games, crafts, recipes, quizzes, drawing, writing, and coloring activities. Its contents feature familiar characters from the deep dark wood.

A sticker activity book based on The Singing Mermaid, with games and hands-on activities set in the picture book’s seaside world. It includes more than 400 stickers for children to use as they play through the mermaid-themed pages.

An adapted, color-coded script that lets children stage What the Ladybird Heard at home or school. It provides speaking parts, staging and prop advice, themed activity ideas, and mask templates for the farmyard characters.

A baby finds everyday activities disrupted by unexpected animals: a mole in the bowl, a hare on the chair, and more surprises. This lift-the-flap board book uses simple rhymes and actions, with a companion sing-along song.

The class mascot enjoys weekends with the children of Class One until he slips unnoticed from new pupil Matt’s backpack. Swept into an unexpected journey through the town and beyond, the little bear must somehow find his way back to school.

This Gruffalo and Friends annual gathers stories, puzzles, crafts, recipes, quizzes, games, drawing, writing, and colouring activities. Its pages feature characters from The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, The Snail and the Whale, and other Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler books.

A preschool-friendly interactive retelling inspired by The Gruffalo. Readers use the included Gruffalo hand puppet while Mouse encounters Fox, Owl, and Snake in the deep dark wood, then explore tactile details such as the Gruffalo’s nose and prickles.

Based on The Highway Rat, this activity book brings the story’s characters into colouring pages, dot-to-dots, mazes, spot-the-difference challenges, and simple word searches. Reusable stickers add another way for young readers to play with the highway-themed adventure.

A sticker activity book inspired by The Rhyming Rabbit. Children join the rhyme-loving rabbit and his animal friends through sticker scenes, puzzles, and games, using more than 400 stickers along the way.

Wildebeest, Warthog, Spotted Hyena, Lappet-Faced Vulture, and Marabou Stork are known as the Ugly Five. This rhyming safari story follows the much-maligned animals and asks readers to look beyond appearances, while celebrating the care they show their young.

A performance script adapting What the Ladybird Heard Next for children to stage at school or home. It uses colour-coded character parts and includes practical ideas for rehearsals, props, staging, activities, and masks for the main characters.

The detective ladybird is holidaying at the zoo when Lanky Len and Hefty Hugh devise a bold new theft. As the pair plan to use a monkey in their attempt to take the Queen’s crown, the tiny listener must find a way to stop them.

A lift-the-flap farm adventure for young children, based on the What the Ladybird Heard picture books. Each spread invites readers to find animals and familiar characters, including the two bungling thieves and the little ladybird hiding nearby.

A sound-book introduction to Room on the Broom for younger readers. The witch, her cat, and their animal friends fly overhead, while children can press a specially designed feature to add a whooshing sound to the short interactive story.

Princess Pearl, Sir Gadabout, and Zog travel together as flying doctors, helping patients from a sunburnt mermaid to a sneezing lion. When Pearl’s uncle insists that a princess cannot be a doctor, the team faces a challenge that puts her calling to the test.

A rhyming animal alphabet book that turns each letter into a guessing game. Shaped pages, peep-through details, and fold-out flaps encourage children to compare a lively assortment of animals and explore descriptive words.

Steven Rice loves cereal so much that he eats it for every meal. When a competition invites children to invent a new cereal, he eagerly enters—only to discover that his breakfast obsession has unexpected consequences.

A sticker activity book based on Sharing a Shell, the underwater picture book by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks. It offers games and activities alongside more than 400 stickers, extending the story’s marine setting into interactive play.

A hungry king hires Wobbly Bob to cook fish and chips, but Bob is frightened by nearly every step of the job. As they travel to gather ingredients, the king helps his anxious new cook face each challenge.

Children help Nell, Peter, and their friends investigate the disappearance of the children’s books in this activity companion to The Detective Dog. Colouring, games, activities, and more than 400 stickers turn the bookish mystery into hands-on play.

An activity annual featuring characters from The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, The Snail and the Whale, and other Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler stories. Its pages combine short stories with puzzles, crafts, recipes, games, quizzes, drawing, writing, and colouring activities.

A Gruffalo-themed sticker activity book that takes young children outdoors during autumn and winter. Its seasonal prompts center on observing, listening, collecting, and engaging with nature in accessible activities designed for early learners.

A Gruffalo-themed outdoor activity and sticker book for young nature explorers. Spring and summer prompts encourage children to pause, observe, listen, collect, and learn about the natural world through seasonal activities inspired by the deep dark wood.

A Room on the Broom-themed cookbook with 23 recipes for children and adults to make together. Step-by-step instructions cover snacks, meals, drinks, and party bakes inspired by the witch, her friends, and their magical world.

A child-friendly playscript adapting Room on the Broom for group performance. Colour-coded dialogue helps readers follow their parts, while staging advice, prop suggestions, and themed activities support rehearsals and classroom productions.

A first book about friendship featuring the animal residents of Acorn Wood. Fox and Mouse play dress-up, friends help Squirrel with chores, Pig plays hide-and-seek with Hen, and companions celebrate, sing, and play together.

A compact board book for babies featuring the Gruffalo in the deep dark wood. Simple patterns, bold colors, and familiar characters introduce very young children to sounds and the world of the Gruffalo in a format made for outings.

A first concepts board book set among the animals of Acorn Wood. It introduces opposites through clear pairings, including big and small, happy and sad, awake and asleep, and loud and quiet.

An interactive retelling of Room on the Broom, with page-activated sounds that accompany the witch, her cat, and their new animal passengers. As the crowded broom breaks and a dragon appears, the friends must work together to escape danger.

A compact board-book introduction to The Gruffalo for babies and toddlers. Based on the original picture book, it invites very young readers to meet the Gruffalo and familiar animals from the Deep Dark Wood.

This large-format treasury brings together four interactive Acorn Wood lift-the-flap stories: Fox’s Socks, Rabbit’s Nap, Hide-and-Seek Pig, and Postman Bear. Rhyming text and Axel Scheffler’s illustrations invite young children to help the woodland animals with their everyday adventures.

The Go-Away Bird wants to be left alone and sends every visitor from her tree away. When the threatening Get-You Bird appears, she learns that friendship and cooperation can matter when she needs help most.

A Highway Rat-themed sticker book packed with activities for fans of the picture book. Children work through colouring pages, mazes, dot-to-dots, word searches, and visual puzzles, using more than 400 stickers as they go.

A party-planning activity book inspired by Room on the Broom. It supplies themed games, crafts, decorations, invitations, food ideas, jokes, a song, and stickers for children preparing a witchy birthday or Halloween celebration.

On a faraway planet, the red Smeds and blue Smoos refuse to mix. When a young Smed and a young Smoo fall in love, their disapproving families must confront their divisions and find a way toward peace.

A seaside activity book inspired by The Snail and the Whale. Spotter guides, coastal wildlife facts, crafts, and more than 200 stickers encourage young explorers to notice and learn about nature at the shore, at home or on holiday.

Created for the tenth anniversary of Tabby McTat, this interactive companion revisits the characters from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s picture book. It combines colouring pages, puzzles, mazes, word searches, and more than 400 stickers.

This treasury brings together Zog, Tiddler, Tabby McTat, and The Highway Rat, alongside illustrated activities. It offers four Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler stories with puzzles and hands-on exercises connected to their characters and worlds.

A Stage 1 Songbirds collection of twelve short, illustrated stories for children beginning to read. Bob Bug’s tiny-world adventures join tales about Top Cat, baking buns, pets, and more, all designed to give early phonics practice.

A first colors board book featuring the familiar animals of Acorn Wood. Young readers look for details such as Fox’s blue socks, Bear’s red waistcoat, and flowers in Rabbit’s garden while learning to recognize different colors.

A first numbers board book set among the familiar animals of Acorn Wood. Children count from one to ten through scenes involving Pig, Fox, Bear, Rabbit, and other characters drawn from the Tales from Acorn Wood stories.

A rhyming lift-the-flap counting book in which children meet animal parents and their young. Peep-through pages, unfolding flaps, animal-baby names, and a final search-and-find game turn counting into an interactive exploration of the animal world.

A felt-flap board book for babies and toddlers set in the Gruffalo’s deep dark wood. Children lift soft fabric flaps to find familiar characters, building early fine-motor skills while sharing a simple search-and-find experience.

A lift-the-flap board book for babies featuring five little ones who hide, peep, wave, clap, point, and dance. Simple rhymes and actions invite children to copy along, with a companion song available for singing together.

A craft and sticker activity book based on Monkey Puzzle, in which a lost young monkey searches for his mother with a well-meaning butterfly. Projects include a jungle card game, wearable butterfly wings, and handprint animals.

A Songbirds activity book for children taking their first steps in reading. Stickers, letter-finding tasks, games, and rhyme-making activities feature familiar characters including Zak the dog, Top Cat, and Bob Bug while building early phonics knowledge.

A large-format treasury containing Stick Man, The Scarecrows’ Wedding, Zog and the Flying Doctors, and Superworm. Illustrated activities accompany the four stories, giving children additional ways to revisit the characters, settings, and adventures.

During a local production of Snow White, shy Ellen is joined by Mirror-Belle, the mischievous princess who steps out of her bathroom mirror. Mirror-Belle’s attempt to help sends the pantomime cheerfully and unpredictably off script.

This Stage 2 Songbirds collection brings together seven illustrated stories for developing readers. Ron Rabbit’s important egg, a doll in a bin, an animal quiz, and other playful scenarios provide phonics practice, with guidance for adults reading alongside children.

An interactive board-book introduction to Room on the Broom for very young readers. Push-and-pull tabs let children move the witch’s hat, reveal her animal companions, and join the characters on their broom ride.

A chunky board book built around the witch, cat, dog, bird, and frog from Room on the Broom. Five simple jigsaw puzzles invite young children to assemble colorful scenes featuring the familiar characters.

A sticker activity book based on Room on the Broom, following the witch and her helpful animal friends on their broomstick journey. It combines sticker scenes, colouring, matching tasks, and other games with more than 400 stickers.

A sturdy interactive board book that introduces Room on the Broom through push, pull, and slide tabs. Young children move the broom and other scenes as the witch gains animal companions, faces a hungry dragon, and continues her flight.

A Stage 2 Songbirds collection of seven short stories for emerging readers. The book includes the adventures of Singing Dad, Viv’s odd pet, and Ron Rabbit at the fish-and-chip shop, supported by phonics practice and tips for reading together.

A Stage 3 Songbirds collection of seven illustrated stories for children gaining reading confidence. Spike’s big claims, Nasim’s unusual knighthood, and the fate of a snake and drake anchor phonics-focused tales, with tips for recognizing key letter patterns.

An audio collection of seven stories from Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, including Sugarlump and the Unicorn, The Singing Mermaid, and The Princess and the Wizard. Multiple performers narrate the tales, with music, sound effects, read-along tracks, and the Sugarlump song.

This Acorn Wood gift set pairs a friendship-themed board book with 32 large character cards. Children meet Bear, Pig, Fox, Rabbit, and their friends, then use the cards for four simple games, including variations on Snap, Go Fish, and matching pairs.

An Acorn Wood activity book featuring Fox, Pig, Bear, Rabbit, and other familiar characters from the lift-the-flap stories. It offers sticker scenes, coloring, matching activities, and more than 400 stickers for children to use while exploring the woodland setting.

This portable activity case gathers puzzles, coloring pages, games, and hundreds of stickers inspired by The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, The Snail and the Whale, and Room on the Broom. Its books and sticker sheets are packaged for creative fun on the go.

A novelty retelling of The Gruffalo that invites young readers into the deep dark wood with Mouse. Pop-up scenes, flaps, peep-throughs, and press-out pieces turn encounters with Fox, Owl, Snake, and the Gruffalo into hands-on play.

An interactive board book for very young Gruffalo fans, inviting them to explore tactile features such as tusks, knees, and prickles. Bright illustrations and touch-and-feel elements offer a sensory introduction to the familiar character.

This interactive board-book version of The Gruffalo follows the quick-witted Mouse through the deep dark wood. Simple rhyming text and push, pull, and slide mechanisms let toddlers reveal the familiar characters as the story unfolds.

Dot the Dalmatian and her owner Rose visit the children on Wallaby Ward, where Dot’s attention brightens difficult days. When one of the children needs help beyond a comforting cuddle, the devoted hospital dog must act bravely.

A make-and-do activity book based on The Singing Mermaid, following the mermaid’s circus adventure and longing for the sea. Its crafts include a mermaid crown, a circus tent theatre, and an ocean scene in a jar, alongside stickers.

A space-themed sticker activity book based on The Smeds and the Smoos. Children can colour, solve dot-to-dots, mazes, puzzles, spot-the-difference pages, and word games, then complete scenes with stickers and create an alien of their own.

A moveable board-book introduction to The Snail and the Whale. Pull-tabs and sliders let preschoolers follow a tiny snail travelling on a whale’s tail, then help with the plan to rescue the whale after it becomes stranded.

A sea-themed craft book drawn from The Snail and the Whale. Children can make projects inspired by the pair’s ocean voyage, including a penguin pencil pot, an erupting volcano, and an underwater scene, while using the included stickers and activities.

Old Macdonald finds a tiny wish-granting genie in a teapot and asks for a wife. One wish leads to another—then another—until a baby, dog, cat, mice, and a growing chorus of farmyard commotion leave the genie longing for quiet.

This Songbirds phonics collection contains seven illustrated stories for children developing early reading skills. Alongside the title tale, readers encounter a cross Gran and Ron Rabbit’s rocket, with reading tips that highlight the letter patterns in each story.

In Acorn Wood, Cat wants to learn how to cook and searches the library for a useful book. This rhyming lift-the-flap board book lets toddlers follow her quest and discover the surprise awaiting Cat and her friends.

A short illustrated play about Roman Britain for classroom reading or performance. When Arthur Godbold finds a bronze head of Emperor Claudius in a Suffolk river, he is drawn into the story of Rome’s invasion of Britain and the people caught up in it.

A sturdy felt-flap board book invites toddlers to search for the missing Stick Man. Children lift colorful flaps as they look, making this a simple interactive introduction to the characters from Stick Man.

Squirrel wants to build a snowman in snowy Acorn Wood, but first she and her friends need to gather everything required. This rhyming lift-the-flap board book invites young children to join the wintry search.

An Acorn Wood activity book featuring crafts, games, and more than 200 stickers. Young children can make animal masks and puppets, build a simple hide-and-seek game, and spend creative time with Bear, Fox, Rabbit, Pig, and their woodland neighbors.

Told in rhyme, this picture book follows a pine from a Norwegian forest to London’s Trafalgar Square, where it becomes the city’s Christmas tree. An author’s note explains the real annual gift from Norway that inspired the story.

Created with nature-play specialists Little Wild Things, this outdoor activity book offers step-by-step projects and prompts for families to explore nature. Its activities draw on The Gruffalo, Monkey Puzzle, Room on the Broom, and Charlie Cook's Favourite Book.