Customers say
Customers love this children’s book for its clever storyline about a mouse outsmarting predators, and its fun, musical rhyming scheme that works well. The book features fun voices for each character and can be read dozens of times, with children memorizing the story quickly. They appreciate the repetition throughout the book, and one customer notes how it helps with word recognition.
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Julia Donaldson’s trademark rhyming text and Axel Scheffler’s brilliant, characterful illustrations come together in this perfect read aloud—a perfect gift for any special occasion!
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. . . .
Our Top Reviews
Reviewer: Mrs T
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Every child should have a copy of The Gruffalo!
Review: I love this book. My first purchase was for my 3 year old granddaughter. She loved the book and always asked that I read it to her. When she was 3 years old, she read the book to us. I was amazed and was sure she had memorized it from so many readings. I decided to test her by opening it and choosing different pages…..she still read it perfectly. A genius….no,but I am certain this wonderful book was instrumental in teaching her to read. She is now a special needs teacher and has a copy of the book for her classroom. Her students enjoy the book and ask for it to be read daily.
Reviewer: Just my opinion
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Such a great story for children of any age
Review: 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.
Reviewer: Paige Murray
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wonderful, clever story!
Review: 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!
Reviewer: Laura
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Must have for your home library!
Review: Julia Donaldson is amazing, the Gruffalo is definitely one of our favorite books! So cute. We read it often.
Reviewer: Tiffany olson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good book
Review: Never heard of it til my boyfriend said to get it. Good story
Reviewer: KeenJane
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Yes, yes, yes. All of the Yes.
Review: 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.
Reviewer: DBaize
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Such a fun read!
Review: This is one of my 4 year old grandsons favorite books. The line the fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good, needed to be elaborated on that it was because fox eat mice. But other than that it flowed well and many opportunities to use different voices when reading. He laughed and wanted it read and re-read over and over. Of the four books I bought this was one of his favorites
Reviewer: dakota53
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: an entertaining book
Review: my 2 year old granddaughter loves this book! We just got it and I have read it to her ten times or more! She goes home and tells Dada she wants a gruffalo!
Reviewer: Leyendo Forever
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Este libro es hermoso. Es fácil de entender, las ilustraciones están padrísimas y la historia es excelente
Reviewer: Ad
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: My 2 year old daughter loves to hear the story and see the Gruffalo pictures. She loved it!
Reviewer: Laura.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Una storia intramontabile, libro acquistato in inglese per introdurre la mia bimba alla lingua e ai suoi suoni, penso che sia ideale vista la ripetitività della storia che è sempre avvincente!Belle le illustrazioni e bello il formato, bellissima qualità della carte e delle stampe e perfetto da portare anche in giro visto che è sottile e leggero.
Reviewer: Mrs M M Gladden
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: It was a present
Reviewer: Cristiano Oliveira
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Ótimo para ler com as crianças. Com as rimas, a leitura sai bem fluida
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