by Julia Donaldson · Macmillan Children's Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780333710937
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«The Gruffalo» is the children's picture book by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, in paperback (32 pages, in English).
A mouse strolls through a deep forest and encounters several animals that want to eat him. To avoid this, he claims he has an appointment with the Gruffalo, a fearsome monster. When he discovers the monster really exists, he must use his cunning to come out on top.
Published by Macmillan Children's Books in 1999, it is part of the Gruffalo series and falls within children's and young adult literature.
Aimed at children aged 3 to 7, according to reading age data, and at readers of illustrated stories in English.
Dame Julia Catherine Donaldson is a British writer and playwright, and the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate. She is best known for her popular rhyming stories for children, especially those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which include The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, Stick Man, and Superworm. She originally wrote songs for children's television but has concentrated on writing books since the words of one of her songs, "A Squash and a Squeeze", were made into a children's book in 1993. Of her 184 published works, 64 are widely available in bookshops. The remaining 120 are intended for school use and include her Songbirds phonic reading scheme, which is part of the Oxford University Press's Oxford Reading Tree. In January 2025, Donaldson became Britain's best-selling author, surpassing J.K. Rowling by some 600,000 sales.
