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Gruffalo

Gruffalo


by Donaldson, Julia
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    A clever mouse uses the threat of a terrifying creature to keep from being eaten by a fox, an owl, and a snake--only to have to outwit that creature as well.
 
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A clever mouse uses the threat of a terrifying creature to keep from being eaten by a fox, an owl, and a snake--only to have to outwit that creature as well.

Author:
Donaldson, Julia
ISBN:
9780803730472
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
24
Publish Date:
01/27/2005
Publisher:
Dial Books for Young Readers

Portions copyright 2005 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.

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    • Very entertaining

      My grandchildren love this book and I love reading it to them!

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    • Love it!

      When my son was 3 years old, he received his first Julia Donaldson books (The Snail and the Whale) and loved it. We were excited when on his fourth birthday; he received "The Gruffalo" and "The Gruffalo's Child." It's one of my family's all-time favorite bedtime books! We love the story and the pictures, too. In fact, I've bought this book and others by Julia Donaldson as gifts for friends and to add to our library. I only have one complaint about my order, when Overstock listed the format as "Hardcover," I assumed this meant it was it was a hardcover book and not a board book. I was disappointed when I received it and it was a board book, especially since it was a gift for a 5-year-old. I love Julia Donaldson¿s books, though and highly recommend them to anyone who has young children.

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    The eponymous character introduced by this British team owes a large debt to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. When Mouse meets Fox in the """"deep dark wood", he invents a story about the gruffalo," described very much like Sendak's fearsome quartet of wild things-""""He has terrible tusks", and terrible claws," and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws."""" The gullible fox runs away when Mouse tells him that the gruffalo's favorite food is roasted fox. """"Silly old Fox!"""" says Mouse"," """"Doesn't he know?/ There's no such thing as a gruffalo!"""" Owl and Snake follow suit until", with a turn of the page, Mouse runs into the creature he has imagined. Quick-thinking Mouse then tells the monster," """"I'm the scariest creature in this deep dark wood./ Just walk behind me and soon you'll see","/ Everyone for miles is afraid of me."""" Fox", Owl and Snake appear to be terrified of the tiny mouse, but readers can plainly see the real object of their fears. By story's end, the gruffalo flees, and Mouse enjoys his nut lunch in peace. Despite the derivative plot line, debut author Donaldson manipulates the repetitive language and rhymes to good advantage, supplying her story with plenty of scary-but-not-too-scary moments. Scheffler's gruffalo may seem a goofy hybrid of Max's wild things, but his cartoonlike illustrations build suspense via spot-art previews of the monster's orange eyes, black tongue and purple prickles until the monster's appearance in full. Ages 4-8. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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