Julia Donaldson Books in Order

A sticker activity companion to The Scarecrows’ Wedding, following Betty O’Barley and Harry O’Hay as readers complete scenes and help prepare for their wedding. It combines puzzle stickers with drawing, word, matching, maze, and coloring activities.

A sticker activity book inviting children to join Tiddler, the storytelling fish, on further underwater adventures. It includes colouring pages, dot-to-dots, puzzles, spot-the-difference challenges, mazes, word searches, and more than 600 stickers.

While looking for dandelions, a humble woolly bear caterpillar wonders what sort of moth she will become. Surrounded by showy caterpillars who boast about their futures, she learns that appearances and expectations can be misleading; a factual mini-guide accompanies the story.

Badger wants to form a band, and his Acorn Wood friends are eager to take part. As Tortoise brings a trumpet and Bear plays piano, young readers lift the flaps to discover which other animals will join the music-making.

Mole has misplaced his spectacles and searches his home, garden, and Weasel’s sweetshop without success. Young readers lift the flaps throughout this rhyming Acorn Wood board book to help track down the missing glasses.

An interactive board book based on Room on the Broom, inviting very young children to join the witch and her animal companions. Each spread pairs simple text and bright artwork with tactile elements, including the witch’s cape, the dog’s fur, and the dragon’s scales.

A boastful ghost, witch, and troll compete to prove which of them is the worst. When a little girl moves into a nearby cottage, their plans to frighten her meet a brave, resourceful opponent.

A sticker activity book based on The Smartest Giant in Town, inviting children to spend time with George the helpful giant. It contains games, activities, and more than 400 stickers.

This interactive board book retells George’s story in short rhyming text. As the newly well-dressed giant meets animals in need, children use push, pull, and slide tabs to follow his choices about giving away his clothes.

Bert the bowerbird builds and decorates a nest in hopes of winning the affection of Nanette. As her demands for more gifts grow, Bert must learn what matters in finding someone who appreciates him.

A bedtime anthology mixing new stories, poems, illustrations, and extracts from Puffin favorites. It includes work by Julia Donaldson alongside classic and contemporary children’s creators, plus brief pieces from public figures reflecting on dreams and aspirations.

In rhythmic verse, this picture book welcomes babies to the sights, sounds, people, places, and small discoveries around them. It moves from home and family life to outdoor encounters with nature, celebrating the changing everyday experiences of a child’s early years.

Jonty, a young gentoo penguin living in a zoo, slips away one night determined to reach Antarctica, the home he has heard about from his aunts. His long trip becomes more difficult when he must work out where the true South Pole is.

A boy quietly reading beneath a tall tree is interrupted by a girl and her paper plane. Their growing friendship unfolds alongside an account of paper’s journey, connecting a small encounter in the woods to the process by which paper is made.

Frog and his friends prepare for a seaside outing, packing sunhats, buckets, and spades before catching a steam train from Acorn Wood station. This rhyming lift-the-flap board book follows their sunny day at the beach.

Announced for September 2026, this new Gruffalo picture book returns to the deep dark wood as Gruffalo Granny comes to visit the family. Written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, it brings back familiar characters.

Ruth Mary, a tooth fairy accustomed to children’s pillows, is sent to the jungle to collect animals’ teeth instead. When a crocodile wakes and decides she might make a meal, she must find a way out despite her damaged wings.