The Gruffalo - Julia Donaldson

The Gruffalo Who Is This Creature With terrible Claws? The Gruffalo is written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. It is a fantastic children's book with amazing illustrations. The gruffalo is used in nurseries, playgroups and schools. Julia Donaldson is best known for her prize-winning picture books, but she began her career as a singer and a songwriter, and even spent time busking round Italy and France. She continues to perform her stories, songs and plays to sell out audiences and is the most celebrated writer for young children in britain today. Axel Scheffler is a star of children's book illustrations. His ...  Read the complete review

~~~~ The gruffalo ~~~~ The gruffalo was written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. This book has won the Smarties book prize gold award. ~~~~ The Author ~~~~ Julia Donaldson was raised in a victorian house in London. She lived there with her parents, sister, grandmother aunt and uncle. She went to Bristol university to study drama and french and this is where she met her husband. Julia and her husband used to go busking together before they had children and this led to a career in singing and songwriting for kids tv. In 1993 one of her songs, a squash and a squeeze was made into a book and since then she has had other ...  Read the complete review

The Gruffalo - Julia Donaldson This is perhaps the most famous of her books and after reading it 6 months ago I can see why. Immediately it had me hooked with its expressive text and its gently rhyming words. After many readings I think I can probably recite it off by heart! The story The mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood... the mouse is a small unassuming creature who is propositioned several times on his quiet walk through the wood. Each time he declines courteously saying that he was off to have tea/supper/dinner with a Gruffalo. He describes a part of the Gruffalo each time and suggests that the Gruffalo likes to eat that ...  Read the complete review

This is the scary tale of a little mouse on a journey through the woods. On his way through the woods the mouse meets a lot of other animals who would like to eat him, a fox, a owl, a snake. Every time he meets someone who wants to eat him he puts them off eating him by telling them about the gruffalo, a big thing with big tusks and big claws. The mouses story of the gruffalo stops him being eaten by all of the creatures in the forest but the gruffalo isnt just a story and you can imagine the horror of the little mouse when he comes face to face with the gruffalo himself. This is a lovely story which is fun for children as there is a ...  Read the complete review

"A MOUSE TOOK A STROLL THROUGH A DEEP DARK WOOD. A FOX SAW THE MOUSE AND THE MOUSE LOOKED GOOD" We bought this book some time ago, and from the start, it was a hit with little lady. Having recently bought tickets for the live theatre production, it has once again become a "must read every night" book, and I for one, am not complaining. **THE STORY** The story follows the adventures of a little mouse who goes for a walk "through the deep dark wood, and meets up with a fox, who invites him to have lunch with him. Clever mouse declines (WE know he is the favourite snack for all of these forest creatures) ...  Read the complete review