by Julia Donaldson · OUP Oxford · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780199114009
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«Gran is Cross» is a children's phonics reading book by Julia Donaldson, published by OUP Oxford in paperback (16 pages, in English).
An angry grandmother and two children star in a phonics story alongside a frog with glasses. The text introduces words with initial consonant clusters and is part of a reading program with decodable stories, striking illustrations and activities for segmenting, blending and manipulating sounds.
It is a volume in the Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 3: Songbirds series, a program of 36 books in 6 stages. Includes notes for parents, caregivers and teachers on the endpapers.
Aimed at early readers learning English and at primary classrooms following the British curriculum (Key Stage 1).
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.
