by Julia Donaldson (Author) Axel Scheffler (Illustrator)
A mouse is taking a stroll through the deep, dark wood when along comes a hungry fox, then an owl, and then a snake.
The mouse is good enough to eat but smart enough to know this, so he invents . . . the gruffalo! As Mouse explains, the gruffalo is a creature with terrible claws, and terrible tusks in its terrible jaws, and knobbly knees and turned-out toes, and a poisonous wart at the end of its nose.
But Mouse has no worry to show. After all, there's no such thing as a gruffalo. . . .
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Julia Donaldson served as the UK Children's Laureate from 2011 to 2013 and has written many bestselling and beloved children's books, including The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, and Stick Man. She lives in West Sussex in the south of the UK.