Gruffalo Mouse 7 inch, White/Brown

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The Gruffalo is an internationally bestselling picture book, a popular stage show, a BAFTA and Oscar-nominated animation – and now the story has been adapted into a fun and accessible pla. Donaldson was originally going to have the beast in her book be a tiger, but was unable to think of rhymes for "tiger" so instead invented a new word—"gruffalo".

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Scheffler showed the text to Macmillan, who were his publisher at the time and subsequently published the book. The Gruffalo, too, has won many awards, including the Nestlé Smarties Prize and the Blue Peter Award for The Best Book to Read Aloud – and in 2009 was voted the UK’s favourite bedtime story. But of course the Gruffalo as we know him didn’t come fully to life until Axel Scheffler picked up his pencil and drew him. She said that she imagined he would be "more weird and less furry" than Scheffler's final illustrations. It all began when Julia Donaldson came across a Chinese tale about a clever girl who tricks a hungry tiger into believing she is the Queen of the Jungle and scares him away.

It utilises alliteration from the very start (such as "deep, dark woods" in the opening line), which gives more emphasis to the descriptions and helps children remember them easier. There is typographic variation in the text, in that the Gruffalo's and predator's dialogue is written in italic font whereas the mouse's dialogue is not. Read by Imelda Staunton, The Gruffalo's Child is the number one bestselling, much-loved sequel to the worldwide phenomenon that is The Gruffalo.

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Other Gruffalo-themed woodland walks and trails have been established in Great Britain, including those at Kilmardinny Loch in Bearsden, [69] Mount Vernon Park in Glasgow, [70] Ardkinglas in Argyll, [71] Whinlatter Forest Park in Cumbria, [72] and several locations managed by Forestry England.She said that writing the second half of the book was difficult and almost forced her to stop altogether. This Oscar and Bafta nominated half hour special premiered in the UK on BBC One Christmas Day 2009 to 10m viewers and continues to be enjoyed by families worldwide. Throughout the book, the setting doesn't change—the illustrations at the end of the book are a mirror image of the forest at the beginning. I thought the word had to have three syllables, and end in 'o', and would sound fierce with 'gr' at the beginning, so gruffalo came. When the Gruffalo first appears in the story, he takes up a large part of the visual space on the page with strong, contrasting colours.