Gruffalo creator Julia Donaldson is new children's laureate
Donaldson plans to promote music and drama and champion libraries during her tenure
Julia Donaldson, known to millions of unsleepy children and their drooping adult bedtime readers as the creator of the Gruffalo, he of the "terrible tusks, and terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws", has been appointed the new children's laureate.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 7 June, 2011
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