by Julia Donaldson · Macmillan Children's Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781509801213
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Follow a tiny snail on her big adventure around the world. Tired of life on the rock in the dock, she decides to embark on a journey on the back of a whale. Together they will discover icebergs, volcanoes, sharks and penguins. The snail feels very small in the vastness of the world, but when the whale is stranded in a bay, it will be the little snail who saves the day. A rhyming tale about friendship, courage and the importance of every being, no matter its size.
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.
