The figures look good for the 25-year-old with the knobbly knees and turned-out toes.
On the 25th anniversary of its publication, The Gruffalo is rejoicing in having ventured out of the woods and become arguably the biggest global success in British children’s literature.
Julia Donaldson’s illustrated story of the woodland creature with terrible teeth who is repeatedly tricked by a mouse has now sold more than 11.5 million copies worldwide and been translated into 107 languages or dialects, a feat thought only to be bettered during the last century by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince.
Donaldson thinks, however, that her Gruffalo “hogs too much attention”.
“What I like is when people single out one of my other books as their favourite, as I
