The Gruffalo

What other Gruffalo? Mouse, who are you talking about? - Oh, it's a very large creature, I've known him for a long time..."To save himself from the fox, the owl, and the snake, the little mouse invents a scary Gruffalo - a creature that loves to eat foxes, owls, and snakes. But will the resourceful mouse be able to outsmart all the hungry predators? After all, he knows very well that there are no Gruffalos... Or are there?

Today, it's hard to imagine that there were no Gruffalos before. Since its first publication in England in 1999, 26 million books about the fearsome creature with purple spikes on its back have found their owners around the world, and the hero speaks 86 foreign languages. The Russian Gruffalo is also turning 15 years old. Happy Birthday, Gruffalo! A fairy tale in verse for adults to read to children.