This new, deluxe slip-cased edition of The Gruffalo’s Child and The Gruffalo is covered in shiny blue foil and features silhouette artwork by Axel Scheffler. The award-winning stories about a clever little mouse outwitting a hungry fox, a not-so-wise owl, and a sinister snake in the deep, dark wood have been delighting children and adults since 1999. The books have been translated into over fifty languages and made into Oscar-nominated films. Repetitious, rhyming text and cartoonlike watercolor, colored-pencil, and ink illustrations bring the lovable creatures to life in these favorite, humorous tales. mjw |
Title: The Gruffalo’s Child and The Gruffalo, Gift Slipcase
Author: Julia Donaldson
Illustrator: Axel Scheffler
Publisher: Macmillan Children’s Books, London
Copyright: 2014
Original Language: English
Original Copyright: 1999 The Gruffalo, 2004 The Gruffalo’s Child
ISBN: 978-1-4472-8089-7 The Gruffalo, 978-1-4472-8090-3 The Gruffalo’s Child
Hardcover pages: 32, 32
Age range: 3 up
Genre: Picture book
Author’s ethnicity: English
Author’s residence: England and Scotland
Illustrator’s ethnicity: German
Illustrator’s residence: England
Awards: 1999 Nestle Smarties Prize, 2000 Blue Peter Award, 2005 Children’s Book of the Year (G.C), 2011-2013 British Children’s Laureate (Julia Donaldson)
Subjects: Foxes, Mice, Nuts, Owls, Rhyme, Snakes |