The Gruffalo's Child

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a b c Sweet, Matthew (4 September 2004). "We've Created a Monster". The Independent . Retrieved 21 August 2022. Gruffalo tops list of children's favorite books". BBC News. 18 October 2010 . Retrieved 19 October 2010. Scots Translations of Books by Julia Donaldson". Scots Language Centre . Retrieved 8 February 2023.

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Zunshine, Lisa (2019). "What Mary Poppins Knew: Theory of Mind, Children's Literature, History". Narrative. The Ohio State University Press. 27 (1): 1–29. doi: 10.1353/nar.2019.0000. S2CID 150140160– via Project MUSE. Burke, Michael (2022). "Language and style in The Gruffalo". Language and Literature. 31 (1): 41–61. doi: 10.1177/09639470211072162. S2CID 246372502.The Gruffalo’s Child is a fantastic rhyming book that will capture little ones’ attentions with its engaging illustrations and relatable characters. The repetitive phrases, such as, "the snow fell fast, and the wind blew wild, ‘I'm not scared,’ said the Gruffalo's Child." allow children to join in with the story and anticipate rhyming words. This picture book is also ideal for targeting describing through the use of adjectives, such as “deep dark wood” and “big bad mouse”. Children's story The Gruffalo has now been translated into Cornish". The Cornish Times. 31 May 2021 . Retrieved 24 September 2022.

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Baker, Barbara, ed. (2006). "Julia Donaldson". The Way We Write: Interviews with Award-winning Writers. London: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-9122-7. Push, pull and slide the moving mechanisms to meet all your favourite characters from the deep dark wood in this brilliant board book based on the bestselling classic picture book, The Gruffa... Read more Mice often feature as the main character in stories for children, and one key characteristic of the animal in this context is humour. [21] [17] Both Ghassan Fadhil Radhi and van der Westhuizen write that children relate to the character of the mouse who triumphs in difficult situations, along with the humour that is a key element of many mouse stories. [17] [21] Chinese folk tale [ edit ] Lobscheid, William; Inoue, Tetsujiro (1867). An English and Chinese Dictionary. Hong Kong: J. Fujimoto. van der Westhuizen, Betsie (2007). "Humour and the locus of control in The Gruffalo (Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler)". Liberator. 28 (3): 55–74. doi: 10.4102/lit.v28i3.168. ISSN 0258-2279.Richards, Stuart (2 January 2017). "Gruffalo River Ride Adventure coming to Chessington World of Adventures". Surrey Live . Retrieved 28 August 2022. Radhi, Ghassan Fadhil (2022). "Criteria for Children's Literature: Julia Donaldson's The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child as a Study Case". Eurasian Journal of English Language and Literature. Karabuk University. 4 (1): 55–71. eISSN 2717-9435.

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Donaldson has said that the story of The Gruffalo was inspired by a Chinese folk tale known as "The Fox that Borrows the Terror of a Tiger" [22] [23] (狐假虎威 [24]).The folk tale is about a hungry tiger who tries to catch a fox. The fox is clever and tells the tiger that God has made the fox king of all animals. Whilst accompanying the fox, the tiger notices that other animals run away in fear. Not realising that they are actually running away from the tiger, the tiger believes that fox is indeed a feared king. [23] Donaldson was originally going to have the beast in her book be a tiger, but was unable to think of rhymes for "tiger" so instead invented a new word—"gruffalo". [23] Commemorative Gruffalo stamps released to mark book's 20th anniversary". ITV . Retrieved 25 September 2022. In an article titled "Humour and the locus of control in 'The Gruffalo'", Betsie van der Westhuizen identifies the following types of humour used in The Gruffalo: "humour with regard to the narrative aspects, humour with regard to the poetic aspects, visual humour and humour and the performing arts". [17] She writes that the most common use of humour in the story is incongruity, arising from the sense that "everything is not as it should be". [18] Some examples include the mouse averting the predators and the unusual descriptions of food, such as "owl ice cream" and "scrambled snake". [19] She writes that there are different experiences of humour among different ages of children who read The Gruffalo: three to five year olds will appreciate the elements of surprise and repetition in the story; six to eight year olds will enjoy the rhyme and rhythm of the text and the story's hyperbole. [17] As for visual representations of humour, van der Westhuizen writes that an example occurs when the mouse scares away the snake, accompanied by fragmented images of the imaginary gruffalo's features, then immediately afterwards comes across the real Gruffalo. [20]Castellano, Sergio; Cermelli, Paolo (2015). "Preys' exploitation of predators' fear: when the caterpillar plays the Gruffalo". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Royal Society. 282 (1820). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1786. PMC 4685775. PMID 26631561. The text contains a mixture of predictable rhymes (such as mouse-house and wood-good) and unpredictable rhymes (such as toowhoo-flew). It utilises alliteration from the very start (such as "deep, dark woods" in the opening line), which gives more emphasis to the descriptions and helps children remember them easier. [22] [29] The word "terrible" is repeated as an adjective to describe the Gruffalo's features (for example "terrible tusks", "terrible claws"), which Burke writes may remind readers of Where the Wild Things Are—another children's book to use the word. [35] The Gruffalo mainly uses concrete nouns (such as "lake" and "wood") rather than abstract nouns. [22] Illustrations [ edit ] The Gruffalo [ edit ] When writing the story, Donaldson did not have an exact vision of what the Gruffalo would look like. She said that she imagined he would be "more weird and less furry" than Scheffler's final illustrations. [36] She read the story in schools prior to the book being published and invited the children to draw the Gruffalo, which resulted in creatures which she described as looking "more like aliens and less like cuddly animals". [36] In early sketches for the book, the Gruffalo was depicted as being humanoid, troll-like, and wearing a T-shirt and trousers. The book's editor, Alison Green, said that they instead decided that the Gruffalo would look more like a woodland creature and predator, and Donaldson said the resulting illustration is "more natural looking". [36] [37] Scheffler's depiction of the creature relied on the physical descriptions within the text with along with features which aren't mentioned, such as a pair of bovine horns. He created a version of the character which is cuddly and furry but still scary. [38] Donaldson describes the Gruffalo's appearance as a "mixture of scary but stupid". [37] Burke writes that the image of the Gruffalo has become "iconic". [26] Gruffalo in the Forest". Forestry England. Archived from the original on 28 August 2022 . Retrieved 28 August 2022. Discover Julia Donaldson stories to spark the imagination of your little one, plus the latest events and activities based on her bestselling books, in The Gruffalo and Other Stories newsletter.

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The Gruffalo is set in a forest. Scheffler was inspired by the forests in Hamburg when drawing rough initial sketches for the book. [38] The setting contains a footpath, stream, lake, mushrooms and other wildlife. [42] He depicts the "deep dark wood" with deep green and brown tones and dark outlines. [38] The darkness of the hues add to the feeling of suspense when reading the story. [43] Burke writes that the trees and tree roots are "reminiscent of the Gruffalo itself, it is as if the forest has in part spawned the creature, and they serve in the story to foreshadow what is to come". [26] Throughout the book, the setting doesn't change—the illustrations at the end of the book are a mirror image of the forest at the beginning. [42] Publication history [ edit ] Illustrator Axel Scheffler (left) and Julia Donaldson (right) have collaborated on over 20 best-selling books together. An ancient twist on the award-winning story of The Gruffalo , in which a clever little mouse outwits the creatures of the deep dark wood, is the perfect picture book, loved b... Read moreDonaldson, Julia (1999). The Gruffalo (Firsted.). Great Britain: Macmillan Children's Books. ISBN 0-8037-3109-4. Yu, Chen-Wei (2011). "Childhood, identity politics, and linguistic negotiation in the traditional Chinese translation of the picture book The Gruffalo in Taiwan". Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. University of Toronto Press. 3 (2): 30–45. doi: 10.1353/jeu.2011.0013. S2CID 144901850. Read by Imelda Staunton, The Gruffalo's Child is the number one bestselling, much-loved sequel to the worldwide phenomenon that is The Gruffalo. This audiobook edition also include... Read more Follow the Gruffalo’s Child on her adventurous mission in Tall Stories’ enchanting adaptation of the much-loved picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Creasy, Matthew (7 August 2015). "How to write a children's classic: the Gruffalo formula". The Conversation.