![]() ![]() If you are not someone who spends much time with young children, you may only be dimly aware of Donaldson’s work – although you will probably be familiar with her most famous creation, the Gruffalo. “I got a letter the other day for Jacqueline Wilson,” Donaldson told me. But elsewhere she can walk the pavement without being recognised. She and her husband, Malcolm, a retired paediatrician, recently bought the local post office to save it from closure. Donaldson is well known in Steyning, due to her frequent signings at the local bookshop. Children from the nearby school often wave in at her as they pass. ![]() “I’m thinking of writing a book about legs,” Donaldson said, as she showed me around the house this summer. Her desk looks out on the street at knee height. T he room where the children’s author Julia Donaldson writes – the heart of her vast picture book empire – is down a winding staircase, in the cellar of her grand white house in Steyning, West Sussex. ![]()
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Novellas might be easier to read with fewer pages, but make no mistake thinking they are easier to write. ©2022 Ali Hazelwood | Illustration: lilithsaur | Penguin Random House LLC ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a pest which divinity seems to have let loose on the masses for their mental and moral degradation. The whole thing is abominable and is due to the fact that the priestly class among Hindus is subject neither to law nor to morality. The profession of a Hindu priest is the only profession which is not subject to any code.All this becomes possible among the Hindus because for a priest it is enough to be born in a priestly caste. The priest's is the only profession where proficiency is not required. During the whole of their career, they must not only obey the law of the land, civil as well as criminal, but they must also obey the special code of morals prescribed by their respective professions. 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