Night Monkey, Day Monkey: 1

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From the multi-award-winning author of a string of beloved contemporary classics, including The Hospital Dog, The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, Stick Man, Room on the Broom, The Smeds and the Smoos, Zog, What the Ladybird Heard and Spinderella. One of Julia Donaldson’s classic picture book stories about two monkeys who are as different as night and day. Best known for her collaborations with Axel Scheffler, each of these vivid rhyming stories is a triumph of imagination.

She lives in Glasgow and spends a lot of time on stage performing her brilliant sell-out singalong shows! She lives in Glasgow with her husband and spends a lot of time touring the country doing readings – and singing! After winning an award from Hallmark for her final university show, it didn’t take long for Lucy to establish herself as a much-loved illustrator within children’s books. Julia Donaldson's collaborations with Axel Scheffler have sold millions of copies, and Room on the Broom is now an Academy Award-nominated short film. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Julia Donaldson is author of many of today’s best-loved picture books including The Gruffalo and Stick Man. It's a beautifully written book however I have dropped a star because of how hard this is to read at bedtime in dim lighting. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. A fascinating look at how different the world can look through two sets of eyes, it is also a refreshingly simple way to introduce children to the concept of interpretation. Julia Donaldson has written some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which together have sold over 25 million copies worldwide and have been translated into over one hundred languages.

But Day Monkey doesn't recognise the creatures of the night, confusing fireflies for winking eyes, bats for flying mice and the moon for a banana. 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.

Julia Donaldson is the internationally renowned author of the best-loved picture books in the world, including The Gruffalo, What the Ladybird Heard, Sugarlump and the Unicorn and Night Monkey, Day Monkey. Julia Donaldson’s beloved rhyming picture book story about two monkeys who are as different as night and day yet still learn to be friends – with adorable, sumptuous illustrations from Lucy Richards. It's a warm and humorous story about a monkey that lives in the night that meets the day monkey and sees all the daytime delights of animals and sights that the daylight brings (and vice versa). One of my television songs, A Squash and a Squeeze, was made into a book in 1993, with illustrations by the wonderful Axel Scheffler. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners.

This book by the award-winning Gruffalo partnership is about a tiny snail who longs to see the world, and the enormous grey-blue humpback whale who gives him a lift on his tail. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. Lucy Richards has illustrated books by Michael Morpurgo and Julia Donaldson, as well as writing and illustrating her own book The Magic Sky.

One of the finest rhyming picture book stories from Julia Donaldson, the author behind The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom and What The Ladybird Heard. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. Further books illustrated by Axel include Room on the Broom, Stick Man, Zog and The Smeds and the Smoos – all of which have been made into much-loved animated films by Magic Light Pictures. One of the finest stories from Julia Donaldson, the author behind The Gruffalo , Room on the Broom , The Scarecrow's Wedding and What the Ladybird Heard . When they try to play together, Night Monkey and Day Monkey learn how differently they see the same world.