The Magic Paintbrush x 30 Award-winning team Pack by Julia Donaldson (author) and Joel Stewart (illustrator) (UK edition)

Shen’s magic paintbrush brings things to life. She paints steaming pots of fish and oysters, bringing them to life to feed the poor people in her village. But when the evil emperor hears about her gift, he commands Shen to paint gold for him instead. Can Shen find a way to defy him?

A timeless story from China retold by the author of The Gruffalo

Delivers a powerful message about resisting greed and corruption

Full of beautiful, delicate artwork and Julia Donaldson’s leaping rhymes

Julia’s bestselling books include Stick Man and Room on the Broom

Supplied as a pack of 30 copies.

Product Details

Catalogue number

1022 in Education Catalogue 2023–24

Series

Pie Corbett's Independent Reading Packs

Format

Paperback

Date published

June 6th, 2019

Condition

New

UK edition

In this pack

The Magic Paintbrush
Award-winning team

usd prices

Price: $11.10

gbp prices

Price: £7.20

Part of this Series

Pie Corbett's Independent Reading Packs

Author/Illustrator

Julia Donaldson

Julia Donaldson is author of many of today’s best-loved picture books including The Gruffalo and Stick Man. Best known for her collaborations with Axel Scheffler, each of these vivid rhyming stories is a triumph of imagination. She was also the Children’s Laureate 2011-2013.

More about Julia: “I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him).

Mary and I were always creating imaginary characters and mimicking real ones, and I used to write shows and choreograph ballets for us.

I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar-playing medic to whom I’m now married.

Before Malcolm and I had our three sons we used to go busking together and I would write special songs for each country; the best one was in Italian about pasta.

The busking led to a career in singing and songwriting, mainly for children’s television.

One of my television songs, A Squash and a Squeeze, was made into a book in 1993, with illustrations by the wonderful Axel Scheffler. It was great to hold the book in my hand without it vanishing in the air the way the songs did. This prompted me to unearth some plays I’d written for a school reading group, and since then I’ve had 20 plays published.

My real breakthrough was The Gruffalo, again illustrated by Axel. We work separately – he’s in London and I’m in Glasgow – but he sends me letters with lovely funny pictures on the envelopes.

My novel The Giants and the Joneses is going to be made into a film by the same team who made the Harry Potter movies, and I have written three books of stories about the anarchic Princess Mirror-Belle who appears from the mirror and disrupts the life of an otherwise ordinary eight-year-old.

When I’m not writing I am often performing, at book festivals and in theatres. I really enjoy getting the children in the audience to help me act out the stories and sing the songs.”