Julia Donaldson grew up In London and lived with her parents, Grandmother, aunt, uncle and younger sister Mary. When she was young she spent her time writing shows and choreographing ballet for her and her sister to perform to the family. She studied Drama and French at Bristol University where she met her husband Malcolm.
Julia and her husband spent lots of time busking in many different countries before they had a family and Julia would write songs for each country. Busking lead to a career in singing and songwriting mainly for kids TV.
Julia mainly worked for the BBC and she also sung on the radio. One of her television songs A Squash And A Squeeze was made into a book in 1993 with illustrations by Alex Scheffler.
After this book was published she went on to write The Gruffalo Which was her real Breakthrough, which was also illustrated by Alex Scheffler. These days she writes books for children 7 years and upwards and she still prefers and finds it easier to write in verse.
When Donaldson is not writing she is usually performing at book festivals and theatres and she really enjoys the getting the children from the audience to help her act out the stories and sing the songs.
I like Julia Donaldson’s work because of the fact that she is so involved with the children and is a great practitioner with many more talents than writing.
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