The Gruffalo

A super cute book for all ages with the cutest illustrations and characters. This book makes a heartfelt bedtime story or a cute classroom book where children can read over and over again.

Summary: It's a wonderful story about a little brown Mouse taking a walk through a deep dark wood and not getting eaten by bigger animals by convincing them of the existence of a terrible creature, the Gruffalo. All is going well for our Mouse, until he meets the Gruffalo face to face! Then he has to convince the Gruffalo that he's actually a big scary creature. It's written by Julia Donaldson who is my absolute favourite children's author right now. I was a nanny for 11 years and I know that anything by Julia Donaldson is going to be a hit. This book has been around so long and is so popular in England that there is actually a lot of merch that you can get to go with it if you choose. There's a movie, an audio book, stuffed animals to represent every character, and even a sequel! The Gruffalo's Child. This is absolutely one of the best children's books around. I can not recommend this highly enough. Every person that I know/ am related to that is under the age of 10 has received this book from me as a present at some point in their lives. I usually purchase it as a baby shower gift because I want to make sure they have it, either that or for a child I nannied, it would be for the first birthday I celebrated with them. Kids love this book because of the repetitive rhyming scheme and it's easy to jump in words at the end of sentences for pre-readers. I will never tire of reading this, even over and over. In fact, it's probably been 2 or 3 years since I've read it, and I could absolutely recite it from memory right now. Proudly! In fact, stop reading this review and buy the book.

I had heard of the gruffalo while we were living in England and actually purchased a DVD of the story. It is such a cute story that I wanted my grandchildren to also have the book. They love it!! It is a great story and the illustrations are wonderful. This should be a classic that you should be added to every parent or grandparent's library.

Adorable!!!! Kids at my school kinder -5th love it💗

This book is so wonderfully written and fun to read! My 6 year old daughter loved the story. The first time reading it through I did have to explain to her the “trick” the mouse was doing to each of the animals and then how that trick helped the mouse then also trick the Gruffalo. I just loved how this story was told and how by using intelligence you can get ahead of even the most powerful of creatures!

Love this book!

Classic

My grandchildren ages 2, 3, and 4 years LOVE this book, especially the 2-year-old boy, and he started loving it when he was 1 3/4-year-old. I got so tired of reading it every day, sometimes twice in a row, that I had to go looking for more books, but it really is a great book. There's a rhythm to the sentences, a repeated pattern, humor, clever thinking, and great illustrations.