Axel Scheffler: the Gruffalo wouldn't exist without UK in EU

The German illustrator and creative partner of Julia Donaldson has written that their collaborations would have been impossible in a less open Europe

Axel Scheffler, the illustrator of the Gruffalo and Stick Man in Julia Donaldson’s books, has warned against a Brexit, saying that without the EU, the hugely popular children’s tales would never have existed.

After an official government report asserted that Britain leaving the EU would negatively affect the lives of millions of Britons living in Europe, as well as creating a decade of uncertainty for “financial markets, investment and the value of the pound”, Scheffler said that without British membership of the EU, as a German, he would never have come to the UK to study illustration, and would never have met Donaldson.

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