by Julia Donaldson · Macmillan Children's Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9781447284581
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«The Gruffalo» is Julia Donaldson's rhyming children's picture book, published by Macmillan Children's Books in hardback (32 pages, in English).
A little mouse walks through the wood and, to escape from the fox, the owl and the snake, claims he is about to meet the Gruffalo, an imaginary monster with a terrible appearance. With rhyming text and illustrations by Axel Scheffler, the story is a game of wits between the protagonist and a creature that is not what it seems.
First title in the «Gruffalo» series, originally published in English in 1999; the book won the Blue Peter Book Award and the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize.
For young children and early readers, designed to be read aloud for its rhythm and humour.
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.
