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My name's Katie Lecky and I'm an assistant commissioner for on demand music on BBC Sounds.

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Music My castaway this week is the children's writer Julia Donaldson. Her quirky rhyming creations are relished by children and grown-ups around the world and she's the recipient of countless literary awards.

The author now of more than 150 books, popular success came comparatively late and only after

she had already worked as a teacher, a publisher, in local radio and, at times, as a busker.

The Gruffalo is her best-known creation.

Published 10 years ago, it's become a modern classic, selling more than 4 million copies.

It's been turned into a stage show and now a film.

Looking back, she says,

it's odd to think that he, the gruffalo,

nearly didn't exist at all.

The story was going to be about a tiger,

but I couldn't find anything to rhyme with that.

It is a tale of this wily little mouse

who invents an imaginary beast

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