(School Library Journal)Ībout the Author Julia Donaldson is the internationally bestselling author of many popular books for children. Winner of the prestigious British Smarties Prize.Ī clever, exuberant story in rhyme with strong, color-saturated pictures to match. is there? Sturdy pages and a cozy trim make this rhyming read-aloud perfect for preschoolers. But will Mouse's frightful description be enough to scare off his foes? After all, there's no such thing as a gruffalo. Full color.īook Synopsis Julia Donaldson's trademark rhyming text and Axel Scheffler's brilliant, characterful illustrations come together in this perfect read aloud-now available as a board book When Mouse takes a stroll through the woods, he meets a fox, an owl, and a snake who all want to eat him! So Mouse invents a gruffalo, a monster with terrible tusks and terrible claws, terrible teeth, and terrible jaws. Exploiting this, the mouse threatens to eat the gruffalo, who himself flees.About the Book A clever mouse uses his imagination to conjure up a vicious "gruffalo" to ruin the appetites of the hungry woodland animals he meets. Each is terrified by the sight of the pair and runs off, and each time the gruffalo becomes more impressed with the mouse's apparent toughness. The two walk through the forest, encountering in turn the animals that had earlier menaced the mouse. Laughing, the gruffalo agrees to follow the mouse as he demonstrates how everyone is afraid of him. He tells the gruffalo that he, the mouse, is the scariest animal in the forest. True to his reputation, the gruffalo threatens to eat the mouse, but again the mouse is cunning. After he has seen off the last animal, however, the mouse is shocked to encounter a real gruffalo, bearlike and hideous and with all the frightening features the mouse thought that he was inventing. The mouse gloats to himself he knows the gruffalo is a fictional monster. Frightened that the gruffalo might eat them, each animal flees. The mouse describes the outlandish features of the gruffalo's monstrous anatomy.
To dissuade further advances, he tells each animal that he is going to dine with his friend, a gruffalo, whose favourite food happens to be the relevant animal. Each of these animals, clearly intent on eating the mouse, invites him back to their home for a meal. A mouse goes for a walk in the forest and on his way encounters several dangerous animals (a fox, an owl, and a snake).
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