Send in your questions for Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler

Newsround want to hear YOUR QUESTIONS for the person behind the world famous drawings that feature in the classic children's book The Gruffalo.

Alex Scheffler is a German artist who's worked with Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson lots of times.

As well as The Gruffalo, he drew the pictures in her book Tiddler, which has been turned into an animated adventure for the BBC this Christmas.

If you could ask him anything, what would you want to find out?

Comment below with your questions for Gruffalo illustrator Alex Scheffler!

Axel is an award-winning illustrator, and he'll be chatting to Newsround about what it's like to draw a picture book.

He was actually rejected to the art school that he first applied to in Germany, but when he moved to the UK he got a place at the Bath Academy of Art and decided to become an illustrator.

His drawings in The Gruffalo have been adapted for TV shows, plays and even opera for children!

You might want to find out what it's like to be an artist, or how illustrators come up with their ideas.

Whatever your question is, comment below!