When Mouse takes a stroll through the woods, he meets a fox, an owl, and a snake who all want to eat him! So Mouse invents a gruffalo, a monster with "terrible tusks and terrible claws, terrible teeth, and terrible jaws."

But will Mouse's frightful description be enough to scare off his foes? After all, there's no such thing as a gruffalo . . . is there?

The Gruffalo is a British children's picture book by writer and playwright Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, that tells the story of a mouse, the protagonist of the book, taking a walk in the woods. The book has sold over 13 million copies,has won several prizes for children's literature, and has been developed into plays on both the West End and Broadway and even an Oscar nominated animated film.