A Hatful of Songs: Book with QR code audio

$34.99

ISBN: 9781035014668

Format: Hardback

Pub Date: 28/04/2026

Category: Early Learning: Verse & Rhymes, Animal stories (Children's / Teenage), JUVENILE FICTION / Nursery Rhymes, JUVENILE FICTION / Classics, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Music / Songbooks

Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books

Price: $34.99

Pages: 112

Sing, read and listen along with this fabulous collection of illustrated songs, based on some of Julia Donaldson's best-loved picture books!

As well as being the UK's most successful picture book author, Julia Donaldson is a gifted songwriter for children. A Hatful of Songs contains ten of her songs, based on Julia Donaldson's best-loved picture books, including What the Ladybird Heard, Cave Baby, One Mole Digging a Hole, Tyrannosaurus Drip, There's an Owl in my Towel and more!

This beautiful songbook treasury is illustrated throughout with the wonderful artwork of Lydia Monks, David Roberts, Nick Sharratt, Emily Gravett and Rebecca Cobb.

Scan the QR code to enjoy all the songs performed by Julia herself. Which will be familiar to anyone who has heard them on TV or radio or enjoyed one of Julia's live performances.

With a beautiful cover, a foreword by the author, and scores so anyone can perform these songs, this is the perfect gift for all fans of Julia Donaldson.

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Julia Donaldson has written some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, which together have sold over 25 million copies worldwide and have been translated into over one hundred languages. Her other books include Room on the Broom, Stick Man and Zog, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, The Hospital Dog, illustrated by Sara Ogilvie and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures, illustrated by Lydia Monks. Julia also writes fiction, including the Princess Mirror-Belle series, illustrated by Lydia Monks, as well as poems, plays and songs – and her brilliant live shows are always in demand. She was the UK Children’s Laureate 2011–13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. Julia divides her time between West Sussex and Edinburgh.

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