How the cat purred and how the witch grinned, As they sat on their broomstick and flew through the wind.

But long before he began his professional life, he had won his first drawing prize for an international chocolate company – his prize was a cuddly lilac cow. Room on the Broom book is another classic children's bedtime story straight from the wonderful creators of The Gruffalo. She was the UK Children’s Laureate 2011–13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. Julia Donaldson is the outrageously talented, prize-winning author of some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child , which together have sold over 17 million copies worldwide, and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Axel’s artwork is exhibited internationally; he has illustrated for many charities and designed the Royal Mail Christmas stamps in 2012.

Best known for her collaborations with Axel Scheffler, each of these vivid rhyming stories is a triumph of imagination. Feel the witch’s black cape, stroke the dog’s soft fur and touch the dragon’s rough scales in this interactive touch and feel book, based on the bestselling picture book, Room on the Broom. A very funny story of quick wits and friendship, Room on the Broom is another smash hit from the unparalleled picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo.The illustrations by Axel Scheffler are beautifully done and complement the text perfectly, adding to the overall appeal of the book. Join the witch and all her animal friends in this magical touch and feel book, featuring all your favourite characters from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Room on the Broom. She was the UK Children’s Laureate 2011-13 and has been honoured with an MBE for Services to Literature. The book was also made into a play by Tall Stories and into an animated film by Magic Light, which was shown on BBC TV at Christmas 2012.

Also available with redesigned covers are: The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, The Snail and the Whale, The Smartest Giant in Town, Monkey Puzzle, Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book, and A Squash and a Squeeze.

Knowing that he wanted to live in another country and learn a second language, he moved to England to study illustration at the Bath Academy of Art. After graduating with a first class degree, Axel moved to London where he began illustrating for a variety of English and German advertising companies, magazines and newspapers. More about Julia: “I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. The Room on the Broom story follows a very kind witch and her cat on their travels as they ride on the broomstick and zoom about the place. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.