by Julia Donaldson · Macmillan Children's Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9780230749610
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«The Gruffalo's Child» is the children's picture book by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, published by Macmillan Children's Books in hardcover.
The Gruffalo's child ignores her father's warning and, one snowy night, ventures into the woods to see if the Big Bad Mouse really exists. On her walk she meets a little mouse, and the shadows cast on the snow hold a surprise for her.
Second installment in the Gruffalo series. The work was originally published in 2004; this edition dates from 2010.
Recommended for children ages 3 to 7, with rhyming text and illustrations for reading aloud.
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.
