Two stars in one jumbo delight! Were you spooked by the Gruffalo? Do you remember how, in the end, he wasn’t as scary as he seemed? Now it’s time to meet another picture book villain. The question is, how worried should you be? A voice startles Rabbit as he hops home to his cosy hole. “I’m the Giant Jumperee, and I’m as scary as can be.” Uh-oh! The dreadful booming voice is coming from inside Rabbit’s burrow. But who is the Giant Jumperee? Is he as scary as he sounds?

A jaunty animal fable by two huge picture book stars

Julia Donaldson wrote The Gruffalo and Stick Man

Helen Oxenbury illustrated We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

A rhyming tale of friendship with a cute happy ending

‘The final, wordless double-page spread is a joyous affirmation of life and friendship. A winner for libraries everywhere.’ Kirkus

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780241330203

Publisher

Puffin

Date published

May 3rd, 2018

Other details

32 pages

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Julia Donaldson

Julia Donaldson is author of many of today’s best-loved picture books including The Gruffalo and Stick Man. Best known for her collaborations with Axel Scheffler, each of these vivid rhyming stories is a triumph of imagination. She was also the Children’s Laureate 2011-2013.

More about Julia: “I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him).

Mary and I were always creating imaginary characters and mimicking real ones, and I used to write shows and choreograph ballets for us.

I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar-playing medic to whom I’m now married.

Before Malcolm and I had our three sons we used to go busking together and I would write special songs for each country; the best one was in Italian about pasta.

The busking led to a career in singing and songwriting, mainly for children’s television.

One of my television songs, A Squash and a Squeeze, was made into a book in 1993, with illustrations by the wonderful Axel Scheffler. It was great to hold the book in my hand without it vanishing in the air the way the songs did. This prompted me to unearth some plays I’d written for a school reading group, and since then I’ve had 20 plays published.

My real breakthrough was The Gruffalo, again illustrated by Axel. We work separately – he’s in London and I’m in Glasgow – but he sends me letters with lovely funny pictures on the envelopes.

My novel The Giants and the Joneses is going to be made into a film by the same team who made the Harry Potter movies, and I have written three books of stories about the anarchic Princess Mirror-Belle who appears from the mirror and disrupts the life of an otherwise ordinary eight-year-old.

When I’m not writing I am often performing, at book festivals and in theatres. I really enjoy getting the children in the audience to help me act out the stories and sing the songs.”