Macmillan announces new instalment of popular Julia Donaldson tale featuring illustrations by Axel Scheffler
The Gruffalo family is to expand after the publisher of the popular children’s stories announced a long-awaited third book about the beloved monster.
The new tale, Gruffalo Granny, will be published on 10 September, Macmillan announced.
The third instalment comes more than 20 years after author Julia Donaldson’s previous foray into the deep dark wood with 2004’s The Gruffalo’s Child, a sequel to 1999’s best-selling original The Gruffalo.
The news that Donaldson would be revisiting the character with knobbly knees, turned out toes and a poisonous wart on the end of his nose was first announced in April 2025, when she said she was spurred on to write by a campaign to reverse a decline in children’s reading.
