I hope that it will help them to feel creative and to start writing and illustrating their own stories, so that we have new picture-book creators in the future.”Īxel Scheffler says: “I find it hard to believe that it is 30 years since Julia Donaldson and I did our first picture book together with A Squash and a Squeeze. It is exciting to be able to share some ‘behind the scenes’ secrets with our young readers and to show what happens before a finished book is in their hands. Julia Donaldson says: “I am delighted that we are working in partnership with The Lowry on this exhibition and that they are celebrating 30 years of Axel and me working together.
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These will be shown alongside Axel Scheffler’s artwork, showing the process of his illustrations from sketches and works in progress, to full page final illustrations that readers are familiar with seeing in the finished books.
This will be the first time that they have been shown as a collection, giving visitors a chance to see how her work has developed and changed over the years.
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This free family-friendly exhibition will feature several of Julia Donaldson’s personal writing notebooks containing the very first ideas and creative thinking behind her picture book stories. The Lowry, in collaboration with publishers Macmillan Children’s Books and Scholastic, is thrilled to announce ‘Julia and Axel: Thirty Years of Favourite Stories – a major new exhibition celebrating the acclaimed partnership between Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, who have created some of the world’s best-loved, and best-selling children’s books, including The Gruffalo, Zog, Room on the Broom, The Smeds and the Smoos, and most recently, The Baddies. Saturday 22 nd July 2023 to Monday 1 st January 2024įrom the terrible tusks and terrible claws of the Gruffalo to the Witch, her cat, and her very tall hat, and Stick Man on his journey home to the ‘family tree’ – Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s characters are loved by children around the world, and this summer they will all be brought together for a landmark new free exhibition opening at The Lowry in Salford.
Julia and Axel - Thirty Years of Favourite Stories: The Lowry announces a major new free exhibition celebrating the unparalleled picture book partnership between writer Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler
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