"What Gruffalo? Little mouse, who are you talking about?" "Oh, he's a very large beast, I've known him for a long time..." To escape the fox, owl, and snake, the little mouse invents the fearsome Gruffalo – a beast who loves to eat foxes, owls, and snakes. But can the resourceful mouse outsmart all the hungry predators? After all, he knows very well that there's no such thing as a Gruffalo... Or is there?
Today, it's hard to imagine a time when there were no Gruffalos. Since the first edition was published in England in 1999, 26 million books about the fearsome beast with purple spines on his back have found owners all over the world, and the hero himself speaks 86 foreign languages. The Russian Gruffalo, meanwhile, is turning 15. Happy Birthday, Gruffalo! A rhyming story for adults to read to children.
