by Julia Donaldson · Penguin LCC US · tapa dura · ISBN 9780803730472
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Join a little mouse on his walk through the woods, where he meets several animals who want to eat him. To avoid being devoured, the mouse invents a monster called Gruffalo, with terrible claws, teeth and jaws. But will this description be enough to scare away his enemies? Discover if the cunning mouse will manage to escape the dangers of the forest in this charming rhyming story, perfect for the little ones.
Dame Julia Catherine Donaldson is a British writer and playwright, and the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate. She is best known for her popular rhyming stories for children, especially those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which include The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, Stick Man, and Superworm. She originally wrote songs for children's television but has concentrated on writing books since the words of one of her songs, "A Squash and a Squeeze", were made into a children's book in 1993. Of her 184 published works, 64 are widely available in bookshops. The remaining 120 are intended for school use and include her Songbirds phonic reading scheme, which is part of the Oxford University Press's Oxford Reading Tree. In January 2025, Donaldson became Britain's best-selling author, surpassing J.K. Rowling by some 600,000 sales.
