RARE PHOTOS: 2 - The Real Truth

Children’s character Zog is celebrated on Royal Mint 50p coins

The 50p joins the Mint’s childhood characters collection, which also includes The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s Child.

Evening Standard · Jun 11, 2025

The Guardian view on the Gruffalo: a well-timed comeback, wart and all

Editorial: The next challenge for Julia Donaldson’s monster is to get its claws into parents and persuade more of them to read aloud

The Guardian - UK · May 1, 2025

Gruffalo set to return next year with first book in more than 20 years

British writer Julia Donaldson and German illustrator Axel Scheffler have announced they are working on a new outing for the monster in the deep dark wood...

Euronews · May 1, 2025

Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michael Rosen and other creatives urge government

More than 2,000 cultural figures challenge Whitehall’s eagerness ‘to ­wrap our lives’ work in attractive paper for automated competitors’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2025

Tiddler illustrator Axel Scheffler considering 'slowing down' as he praises 'masterpiece' new BBC animation

EXCLUSIVE His illustrations have earned him a legion of fans around the world, but the 67-year-old award-winning artist says he feels like his age is ‘creeping up on me’

Evening Standard · Dec 18, 2024

‘I’m gonna be like, so famous to children!’: Jayde Adams on Strictly, sisterhood and her kids’ TV classic

Want a raucous Christmas? Invite the Alma’s Not Normal star. Ahead of her role in the BBC’s animated adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Tiddler, she talks lobsters, prosecco – and Adele

The Guardian - UK · Dec 17, 2024

The Gruffalo’s illustrator launches book to help UK pupils learn German

Axel Scheffler says he hopes Wuschel auf der Erde will encourage more children to learn his first language

The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2024

Olivia Colman to read The Gruffalo’s Child for CBeebies Bedtime Stories

The sequel to Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler’s book is about the child of the famous Gruffalo.

Evening Standard · Nov 6, 2024

Konnie Huq launches free climate crisis ebook for UK primary schools

Children for Change contains stories, poems, and illustrations from more than 80 collaborators including Jamie Oliver, Mary Portas, David Baddiel and Adam Kay

The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2024

‘It enriches your mind in every way’: the fight to keep the UK learning German

With A-level entries for the language halving in a decade, a new initiative is hoping to save it from the academic scrapheap

The Guardian - UK · Aug 17, 2024