{"id":692426,"date":"2026-09-07T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=692426"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:46:29","slug":"board-book-the-snail-and-the-whale-an-adventurous-rhyming-story-from-the-creators-of-the-gruffalo-by-julia-donaldson-author-axel-scheffler-illustrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/board-book-the-snail-and-the-whale-an-adventurous-rhyming-story-from-the-creators-of-the-gruffalo-by-julia-donaldson-author-axel-scheffler-illustrator\/","title":{"rendered":"BOARD BOOK: The Snail and the Whale: An adventurous rhyming story from the creators of The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson (Author), Axel Scheffler (Illustrator)\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rhyming story about adventure and friendship, The Snail and the Whale is a bestselling classic by the unparalleled picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo.<\/p>\n

One little snail longs to see the world and hitches a lift on the tail of an enormous whale. Together they go on an amazing journey \u2013 and when disaster strikes and the whale is beached in a bay, it’s the tiny snail’s big plan that saves the day.<\/p>\n

This classic story has sold over 9 million copies worldwide and is a must-have addition to the bookshelves of all Donaldson and Scheffler fans \u2013 big and small!<\/p>\n

‘Bold and brilliant, wise and wacky’ – The Times<\/p>\n

Look out for Gruffalo Granny, the brand new Gruffalo picture book adventure – coming on 10th September 2026!<\/p>\n

Discover more picture books by Julia and Axel: The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child and Room on the Broom.<\/p>\n

See the full story @ :- https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Snail-Whale-Julia-Donaldson<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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A rhyming story about adventure and friendship, The Snail and the Whale is a bestselling classic by the unparalleled picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo. One little snail longs to see the world and hitches a lift on the tail of an enormous whale. Together they go on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":692427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692429,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692426\/revisions\/692429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}