Collection: Julia Donaldson | BeoVERDE

Everyone knows the Gruffalo — the surprise here is how much else Julia Donaldson has made: song treasuries to sing rather than read, Monkey Puzzle in its 25th-anniversary edition, Room on the Broom in its Halloween special, and The Bowerbird.

Board-book editions with slides and flaps make her rhymes work for one-year-olds; the picture books carry the three-and-ups.