From Publishers Weekly The eponymous character introduced by this British team owes a large debt to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. When Mouse meets Fox in the "deep dark wood," he invents a story about the gruffalo, described very much like Sendak's fearsome quartet of wild thingsA"He has terrible tusks, and terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws." The gullible fox runs away when Mouse tells him that the gruffalo's favorite food is roasted fox. "Silly old Fox!" says Mouse, "Doesn't he know?/ There's no su
Gruffalo's Child and Monkey Puzzle (boardbook boxset) 《咕噜牛小妞妞》和《小猴子找妈妈》卡板故事书套装9780330531979Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks Story Collection 茱莉亚·唐纳森和莉迪亚·莫恩科绘本故事集(共三册） 9780330513876《咕噜牛》1999年斯马尔蒂斯儿童读物金奖
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这两个连续发生的故事，带有跳跃的逆转，值得收藏和一看再看。更何况还是【超值精装】合辑！
《咕噜牛》的主角，可能不是咕噜牛，而是那只狡猾的小老鼠了。最初，小老鼠虚构了一只骇人的大怪物：咕噜牛。这只想象中的怪兽吓走了那些把老鼠当美餐的天敌们。然而，咕噜牛真的存在，而且就在小老鼠身后出现了……小老鼠的胆量、智慧以及它毫不犹豫的撒谎能力，让人不知是该称赞它好，还是恨它才好。
《咕噜牛小妞妞》终于揭幕了，咕噜牛警告他的小妞妞，千万不要去密林里头，那儿有只凶恶的大老鼠会抓住你。可是，一个风雪交加的晚上，小妞妞踮着脚尖，溜出了家……”风刮得猛，雪下得大，可是咕噜牛小妞妞带着既兴奋又期待的眼神出发了，她想亲自去确认爸爸的话……
A mouse is taking a stroll through the deep, dark wood when along comes a hungry fox, then an owl, and then a snake. The mouse is good enough to eat but smart enough to know this, so he invents . . . the gruffalo! As Mouse explains, the gruffalo is a creature with terrible claws, and terrible tusks in its terrible jaws, and knobbly knees and turned-out toes, and a poisonous wart at the end of its nose. But Mouse has no worry to show. After all, there’s no such thing as a gruffalo. .
