by Julia Donaldson · Pan Macmillan · tapa dura · ISBN 9780230742154
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«A Squash and a Squeeze» is the children's picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, published by Pan Macmillan in hardcover (26 pages, in English).
An old woman complains that her house is too small, and a wise man advises her to bring in a noisy band of farm animals. The house becomes chaos, and when she finally lets them out, the protagonist discovers that her home is much more spacious than she thought. A humorous tale about perspective and gratitude.
It was the first picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, authors of The Gruffalo. Edition published in 2009 in English.
Recommended for preschool children and early primary grades; a picture book for the youngest.
Dame Julia Catherine Donaldson is a British writer and playwright, and the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate. She is best known for her popular rhyming stories for children, especially those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which include The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, Stick Man, and Superworm. She originally wrote songs for children's television but has concentrated on writing books since the words of one of her songs, "A Squash and a Squeeze", were made into a children's book in 1993. Of her 184 published works, 64 are widely available in bookshops. The remaining 120 are intended for school use and include her Songbirds phonic reading scheme, which is part of the Oxford University Press's Oxford Reading Tree. In January 2025, Donaldson became Britain's best-selling author, surpassing J.K. Rowling by some 600,000 sales.
