Meet the scariest creature in the wood

This week: Julia and Axel: Thirty Years of Favourite Stories, Philippa Gregory's theatrical debut, a family sculpture walk, escape to the sunny seaside whatever the weather

Julia and Axel: Thirty Years of Favourite Stories at The Lowry (Pic: Nathan Chandler)

WOULD The Gruffalo still have sold more than 13m copies if the creature with terrible teeth in his terrible jaws had instead been named ‘the Snarglegow’? Would Zog, the accident-prone dragon, have captured children’s imaginations as deeply if he had been green instead o…