by Julia Donaldson · Macmillan Children's Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781447282174
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«The Snail and the Whale» is the picture book by Julia Donaldson, published by Macmillan Children's Books in paperback (31 pages, in English).
A tiny snail who longs to see the world manages to travel clinging to a whale's tail. Together they cross oceans, beaches and mountains, and the snail shows that even the smallest can have great adventures. It is a rhyming story, with illustrations by Axel Scheffler, about friendship and courage.
Illustrated by Axel Scheffler. It belongs to the Let's Read! collection, which brings together well-known stories for readers gaining confidence; the work was originally published in 2003.
Intended for early readers and for reading aloud with the family, within the children's and young adult catalog.
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.
