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Author in Focus - Julia Donaldson We explore the life and career of one of the UK's most successful authors and children's Laureate. A Creative Childhood Julia Donaldson grew up in London in the 1960s, living in a terraced Victorian house with her parents, grandmother, uncle and auntie and sister. Julia and her sister would often be found writing shows and choreographing ballets together which would help steer her creativity in her later years. At University, Julia studied Drama and French and it was there that she met a guitar playing medic, Malcolm whom she later married. Together they used to busk on the...