![]() ![]() If you are not someone who spends much time with young children, you may only be dimly aware of Donaldson’s work – although you will probably be familiar with her most famous creation, the Gruffalo. ![]() ![]() “I got a letter the other day for Jacqueline Wilson,” Donaldson told me. But elsewhere she can walk the pavement without being recognised. She and her husband, Malcolm, a retired paediatrician, recently bought the local post office to save it from closure. Donaldson is well known in Steyning, due to her frequent signings at the local bookshop. Children from the nearby school often wave in at her as they pass. “I’m thinking of writing a book about legs,” Donaldson said, as she showed me around the house this summer. Her desk looks out on the street at knee height. T he room where the children’s author Julia Donaldson writes – the heart of her vast picture book empire – is down a winding staircase, in the cellar of her grand white house in Steyning, West Sussex. ![]()
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