Zog

Heartwarming and hilarious. A book to make your heart soar and'zigzag through the blue' Daily Mail'Humour, heart and a worthy heroine earn this story its own star'New York Times'A delightful bedtime read with Donaldson's witty versificationand Scheffler's usual assortment of lushly coloured, winsomelyboggle-eyed characters' FTWinner of the Galaxy National Book Award 2010The magical and exciting picture book from the numberone bestselling author and illustrator of The Gruffalo,Zog and Stick Man.'Madam Dragon ran a school, many moons ago.Shetaught young dragons all the things that dragons need to know.Zog, the biggest dragon, was the keenest one by far.He tried his hardest every day to win a goldenstar.'Zog is the keenest dragon in school. He's also the mostaccident-prone, flying into trees and even setting hisown wing on fire.Luckily, a mysterious little girl always comes by and patchesup his bumps and bruises.But will she be able to help him with his toughest test: capturinga princess? A magical picture book about dragons, knights and princessesfrom the UK's number one picture book author and illustratorThis edition is accompanied by an audio CD,performed by award-winning actress, Imelda Staunton. Children canlisten to the full story with music, play the Zog ListeningGame and sing along to the brand new “Flying Doctors”song, which was written specially for this CD by Julia Donaldson.Perfect read-aloud rhyming text and stunning pictures on everypage with lots of details to spotThe perfect story for children starting school with bravery,kindness, friendship and perseverance at the heartZog has been adapted into a popular animated film starringvoices from Sir Lenny Henry (Narrator), Hugh Skinner(Zog), Tracy Ullman (Madame Dragon) and Kit Harrington (Sir Gadabout).The animated film of Tabby McTat starsvoice artists including Jodie Whittaker (Doctor Who) as the narrator,Rob Brydon (Gavin and Stacey) as Fred, Sope Dirisu (Gangsof London) as Tabby McTat, alongside Cariad Lloyd, Joanna Scanlanand Susan Wokoma.Look out for Jonty Gentoo by JuliaDonaldson and Axel Scheffler in 2024.