After 20 years, family favourite The Gruffalo set for new adventure
Summary
The author of the beloved children's book series "The Gruffalo," Julia Donaldson, is writing a new book in the series that will be published in 2026. The motivation behind this new book is a campaign to combat the decrease in children's reading.Key Facts
- This will be the third book in "The Gruffalo" series, following the original in 1999 and the sequel in 2004.
- Author Julia Donaldson was inspired to write the new book by a campaign from the National Literacy Trust (NLT) to increase children's reading.
- In 2024, the NLT reported that only 35% of children aged 8 to 18 enjoyed reading in their free time.
- This statistic of children enjoying reading is the lowest since the NLT started collecting data in 2005.
- The illustrator of the earlier "The Gruffalo" books, Axel Scheffler, will be working on the new book as well.
- The first two "The Gruffalo" books have sold 18 million copies, according to the publisher Macmillan Children's Books.
- The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, the first two books, have had animated adaptations and spin-off books.
- Children assume that the protagonist Gruffalo was "traveling and exploring" during the time gap between the second and the upcoming third book.
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