Jumbeelia, a girl giant, loves the stories of the iggly plop who climbed up
the bimblestonk and was chased back down again by a giant.

Growing her own bimblestonk, she climbs down it and finds a whole world of
iggly plops our world, in fact, where Colette, Stephen and Poppy are very
surprised to find themselves collected up into a bag and carried off back up
the beanstalk.

So begins a wild and wonderful tale of how three children escape from an
overenthusiastic giant girl, her very-pregnant giant mum, and her very nasty
adolescent giant brother.

About the Author.

Julia Donaldsons writing career started when she was a penniless student in
Paris, and went busking. Busking led to song-writing, including two musicals
and countless songs for childrens television. It was only when one of Julias
songs, A Squash and a Squeeze, was made into a picture book that she began
writing songs without tunes. Her rhyming stories including THE GRUFFALO and
ROOM ON THE BROOM (both published by Macmillan) ? have won many prizes and
regularly top the UK picture-book bestseller charts. For Egmont, she has
written the picture book Night Monkey, Day Monkey, gorgeously illustrated by
Lucy Richards.
Julia has also written books for beginner readers, such as the Banana books
Spinderella and Follow the Swallow, and enjoys writing plays for children and
teenagers, including Bombs and Blackberries (Hodder) which is about the Second
World War.

Egmont has published Julias novel for 7-11-year olds, The Giants and the
Joneses. It is about three children who are kidnapped by a child-collecting
girl giant, and features a special giant language.

For three years Julia was writer in residence for Easterhouse, helping
children and adults with their own writing.

She also visits theatres, schools, libraries and writers groups to do
performances, workshops and talks.