Gruffalo (Winner Of Smarties Book Prize 0-5 Category 1999)

Description: 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. . . .

Review: "Young readers will love the humor in this preposterous story. . . . Serve this one for a rollicking good time." - "School Library Journal"

Author Biography: Julia Donaldson lives in Glasgow, Scotland.