Enjoy a collection of five fun-filled short children's stories by bestselling author of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson! A funny, magical story collection for young readers from the UK's all-time bestselling author A collection of Julia's classic early reader stories, perfect for children moving on from her picture books Newly illustrated by the illustrator of her recent hit picture book, Thomas Docherty In 2025 Julia was confirmed as the UK's top-selling author of all time, overtaking JK Rowling The new Gruffalo book publishes in Sep 2026, and Farshore will publish a new picture book of The Wrong Kind of Bark in 2027 Competition: The Gruffalo; Five-Minute Stories; Stories for Bedtime; Disney Bedtime Stories; Pet Stories; Animal Stories; Jonty Gentoo; Stick Man; secrets of the forest. enid blyton; disney; axel scheffler; tom fletcher; dr seuss; fiona watt; rod campbell; nick butterworth; alice leipis.