The Gruffalo
Julia Donaldson
Illustrated by Axel Scheffler
- This is the story of a walk in the dark, dangerous woods…
- The rhyming story and illustration are both brilliant
- This book is a real winner and a favourite for all to treasure.
Publisher: Macmillan Children's books
'My 4-month-old has started to laugh all the way through the book...'
I have been reading this to my son for a while and now he is 4 months old he loves the different characters. He has started to laugh all the way through this book.
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This is one of my son's favourite books. He knows the story off by heart. He loves it when we make up different voices for the characters and loves talking about all the different creatures in the pictures.
My little boy really loved the wart on the Gruffalo's nose! Lots of pointing and laughing - we had to spend ages reading the page and going back to look again! Lots of fun, loved it...we're going to find some more Julia Donaldson to read next for sure!
We've read this story 8 times in the month we've had it, and we have lots of books. I enjoy doing the voices and my son finds it enthralling! Julia Donaldson is our favourite author!
this is a super book , both my boys love it. they act out the parts and the older one likes to do different voices for the animals
This book was given to my son as a gift when he was born. It is one of the first books I read to him at bed time, has become a favourite of ours and is always greeted with a smile. Still only 9 months old, he can clearly recognise the rhymes in the story and he already sits for the entire book. He especially likes the last page when I whisper 'all was quiet in the deep dark wood.....'.
All the children I look after love this book so much it's always top of the list when I ask them to choose a story for me to read, from babies to 8 year olds they never get fed up of it and always join in.
My daughter had this book when she was 2 & still enjoys it now aged 4. We also have the Gruffalo memory game which she loves playing & reciting lines from the book which are included. The story has a lovely rhythm to it & is really well illustrated.
An instant hit in our house. Matthew refers to this book as "teeth" (Terrible Teeth in his terrible jaws).
Mummy often recites to him when out and about and we play game together pointing at different parts of our bodies that correspond with Julia's rhyme such as knobbly knees or turned out toes
... we have a peg jigsaw of the gruffalo too and will go through the Gruffalo story as we complete the jigsaw








