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    The document summarizes the children's book "The Gruffalo" by Julia Donaldson. It describes the story of a mouse that goes for a walk in the woods and encounters several predators who try to eat it. Each time, the clever mouse tricks the predators into fleeing by telling them he is meeting his powerful friend, the Gruffalo. However, the mouse is surprised when he actually meets a real Gruffalo. Through its cunning, the mouse then convinces the Gruffalo that it is the most feared creature in the forest. They walk together with the other animals fleeing in terror at the sight of them.

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    The document summarizes the children's book "The Gruffalo" by Julia Donaldson. It describes the story of a mouse that goes for a walk in the woods and encounters several predators who try to eat it. Each time, the clever mouse tricks the predators into fleeing by telling them he is meeting his powerful friend, the Gruffalo. However, the mouse is surprised when he actually meets a real Gruffalo. Through its cunning, the mouse then convinces the Gruffalo that it is the most feared creature in the forest. They walk together with the other animals fleeing in terror at the sight of them.

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    The document summarizes the children's book "The Gruffalo" by Julia Donaldson. It describes the story of a mouse that goes for a walk in the woods and encounters several predators who try to eat it. Each time, the clever mouse tricks the predators into fleeing by telling them he is meeting his powerful friend, the Gruffalo. However, the mouse is surprised when he actually meets a real Gruffalo. Through its cunning, the mouse then convinces the Gruffalo that it is the most feared creature in the forest. They walk together with the other animals fleeing in terror at the sight of them.

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    The Gruffalo (Julia Donaldson, 1999)

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    The document summarizes the children's book "The Gruffalo" by Julia Donaldson. It describes the story of a mouse that goes for a walk in the woods and encounters several predators who try to eat it. Each time, the clever mouse tricks the predators into fleeing by telling them he is meeting his powerful friend, the Gruffalo. However, the mouse is surprised when he actually meets a real Gruffalo. Through its cunning, the mouse then convinces the Gruffalo that it is the most feared creature in the forest. They walk together with the other animals fleeing in terror at the sight of them.

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    The story follows a clever mouse who uses his imagination and cunning to escape danger by convincing potential predators that he is friends with a made-up monster called the gruffalo.

    The mouse tells each animal (fox, owl, snake) that invites him for a meal that he is actually going to have dinner with his friend, the gruffalo, whose favorite food happens to be that animal. This scares them away as they fear becoming the gruffalo's meal.

    At first the gruffalo threatens to eat the mouse, but the mouse convinces the gruffalo that he is the scariest animal in the forest. They walk through the forest together with each real animal fleeing in fear of the pair. Eventually the mouse scares even the gruffalo away by threatening to eat him.

    THE GRUFFALO (JULIA DONALDSON, 1999)

    The Gruffalo is one of the world’s best-loved monsters. Since it was first published
    in 1999, the award-winning story of his encounter with the little brown mouse in the
    deep dark wood has continued to delight children and adults the world over.

    The protagonist of The Gruffalo is a mouse. The story of the mouse's walk through
    the woods unfolds in two phases; in both, the mouse uses cunning to evade
    danger.

    The mouse goes for a walk in the forest and on his way encounters several
    dangerous animals (a fox, an owl, and a snake). Each of these animals, clearly
    intent on eating the mouse, invites him back to their home for a meal. The cunning
    mouse declines each offer. To dissuade further advances, he tells each animal that
    he is going to dine with his friend, a gruffalo, whose favourite food happens to be
    the relevant animal. The
    mouse describes the
    outlandish features of the
    gruffalo's monstrous
    anatomy. Frightened that the
    gruffalo might eat them,
    each animal flees. The
    mouse gloats to himself; he
    knows the gruffalo is a
    fictional monster:

    Silly old fox/owl/snake,


    doesn't he know? there's no
    such thing as a gruffalo!

    After he has seen off the last


    animal, however, the mouse
    is shocked to encounter a
    real gruffalo, bearlike and
    hideous and with all the
    frightening features the
    mouse thought that he was
    inventing. True to his
    reputation, the gruffalo
    threatens to eat the mouse, but again the mouse is cunning. He tells the gruffalo
    that he, the mouse, is the scariest animal in the forest. Laughing, the gruffalo
    agrees to follow the mouse as he demonstrates how everyone is afraid of him. The
    two walk through the forest, encountering in turn the animals that had earlier
    menaced the mouse. Each is terrified by the sight of the pair and runs off, and
    each time the gruffalo becomes more impressed with the mouse's apparent
    toughness. Exploiting this, the mouse threatens to eat the gruffalo, who himself
    flees.

    Created by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, the most successful


    author/illustrator partnership in picture book publishing, The Gruffalo is a modern
    classic, and both mouse and monster have become stars of stage and screen as
    well as story-time favourites.
    It all began when Julia Donaldson came across a Chinese tale about a clever girl
    who tricks a hungry tiger into believing she is the Queen of the Jungle and scares
    him away. Julia thought this would make the basis for a good picture book story,
    but couldn’t think of anything to rhyme with ‘tiger’ – so she created her own
    monster whose name had to end in O, to rhyme with ‘doesn’t he know’.

    In

    fact, if you’ve ever wondered why the Gruffalo looks the way he does, that also has
    a lot to do with things that just happened to rhyme, like toes and nose, and black
    and back.
    But of course the Gruffalo as we know him didn’t come fully to life until Axel
    Scheffler picked up his pencil and drew him. He might have looked quite different;
    at first, Axel sketched out a monster who was even more frightening than the one
    we know! He also thought about making the animals wear clothes, but in the end
    this didn’t happen, perhaps to Axel’s relief: imagine trying to dress a snake!Five
    years after the publication of
    The Gruffalo, The
    Gruffalo’s Child was
    introduced to the world,
    starring in her very own
    adventure – and proved
    an instant hit. It was
    voted The Children’s
    Book of the Year at the
    British Book of the Year
    Awards in 2005.
    The Gruffalo, too, has
    won many awards,
    including the Nestlé
    Smarties Prize and the
    Blue Peter Award for
    The Best Book to Read
    Aloud – and in 2009
    was voted the UK’s
    favourite bedtime story. But Gruffalo fans are everywhere: the story has been
    translated into over fifty languages, including Thai, Russian, Scots and Maori . . .
    and for Classics scholars, there is even a Latin edition.
    THE GRUFFALO (JULIA DONALDSON, 1999)

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