Julia Donaldson is one of the UK's most popular children's authors. Her many bestselling collaborations with Axel Scheffler include the modern classic THE GRUFFALO (978-0-333-71093-7) and THE GRUFFALO'S CHILD (978-1-4050-2046-6). Julia's brilliant events for children at schools, libraries and literary festivals are always much in demand. Axel Scheffler is a star children's book illustrator, and the creator of many wonderful books for Macmillan. He enjoys particular acclaim for his work with Julia Donaldson, but has also illustrated fantastic novelty books such as THE TICKLE BOOK (978-1-4050-5363-1).