Julia Donaldson
Bestselling author and creator of The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson, has written over 30 scintillating stories for the Oxford Reading Tree published as the Songbirds Phonics programme. With titles ranging from Mum Bug's Bag to The Wrong Kind of Knight each book teaches children specific phonic material with a cumulative progression through the series.
Julia Donaldson has been writing stories and songs since she was very young. She has worked as a singer and songwriter, mainly for children's television, during which time she became an expert at writing to order on such subjects as guinea pigs, window-cleaning and horrible smells!
Her favourite book is Watership Down by Richard Adams. She enjoys walking, cycling, playing the piano and singing. She has three cats who like to walk all over whatever she has written with their muddy paws.
Oxford University Press is delighted to have Julia Donaldson bring her unique writing talents to the Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds Phonics
For more information about Julia do visit her personal website at http://www.juliadonaldson.co.uk
