{"id":16213,"date":"2025-09-11T15:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/16213\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:57:09","slug":"gruffalo-author-julia-donaldson-in-penrith-to-sign-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/16213\/","title":{"rendered":"Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson in Penrith to sign new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Julia-Donaldson-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152243\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson is in Penrith today to sign copies of her latest book. <\/p>\n<p>The award-winning children\u2019s author has published Paper Chase today and is signing copies at the town\u2019s Hedgehog Bookshop. <\/p>\n<p>Paper Chase is the story of two children who meet under a tree. They become friends \u2026 but then are parted.<\/p>\n<p>When the tree is cut down to make paper, the story follows its incredible journey to become paper and all the things it becomes.<\/p>\n<p>The heart-warming ending sees the children reunited by a paper plane. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is illustrated by Victoria Sand\u00f8y.<\/p>\n<p>This year, grandmother-of-nine Julia became the UK\u2019s number one bestselling author of\u00a0all time\u00a0and was the number one bestselling author of 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson is in Penrith today to sign copies of her latest book. The award-winning children\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-16213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}