The Gruffalo

What other gruffalo? Little mouse, who are you talking about? - Oh, it's a very large creature, I've known him for a long time..."To escape from the fox, the owl, and the snake, the little mouse invents a terrifying gruffalo... - a creature that loves to eat foxes, owls, and snakes. But can the ingenious mouse outsmart all the hungry predators? After all, he knows very well that there are no gruffalos... Or are there?

Today it is hard to imagine that there were no gruffalos before. Since the first edition in England in 1999, already 26 million books about the scary creature with purple spikes on its back have found their owners all over the world, and the hero himself speaks 86 foreign languages. The Russian Gruffalo is also celebrating its 15th anniversary. Happy birthday, Gruffalo! A fairy tale in verse for adults to read to children.