At school he was good at art, but didn't think of a career in illustration until he won a cuddly purple cow in a drawing competition.

I wondered whether it should all be tinted blue - but then I decided to do the colours as usual - as if it was above water.Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here.

Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. In this much-loved picture book, a little mouse walks through the woods and encounters a fox, an owl and a snake. Julia Donaldson's rhyming text is as delightful as ever and there is much to discover in Axel Scheffler's detailed, colourful illustrations. Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). She lives in Glasgow and spends a lot of time on stage performing her brilliant sell-out singalong shows!These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Celebrate fifteen years of this funny and fabulous rhyming picture book from the number one bestselling author and illustrator of The Gruffalo, Stick Man and Zog.

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Jumbeelia, a young girl giant from Groil, the Land of Giants, loves the stories of the iggly plop who climbed up the bimblestonk and was chased back down again by a giant. I got some support finding references for all the fish from the publisher - they produced a little folder where I could look them up - but then my animals are never terribly naturalistic. Why not try some of our favourite books for 4-year-olds - slightly longer stories they'll love chatting to you about. He was the illustrator for Julia Donaldson's first picture book, A Squash and a Squeeze - the start of a hugely successful partnership.

In school, he entertains his incredulous classmates with stories of diving with dolphins and meeting mermaids. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. He moved to England in 1982 to study illustration at the Bath Academy of Art, and then set up home in London.One day Tiddler is so absorbed in his day-dreams that he is swept up in a fisherman's net and then thrown back in to an unfamiliar part of the sea.