All About the Gruffalo: A shaped board book, perfect for little paws! - Hardcover

Donaldson, Julia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1035049473 ISBN 13: 9781035049479

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books, 2025

Synopsis

Meet the Gruffalo in this fun board book shaped like the Gruffalo himself! A great gift for little ones, based on the bestselling classic picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

Turn the sturdy shaped pages to discover everything you need to know about the Gruffalo – from his terrible features to his woodland home, and the animals in the deep dark wood to the Gruffalo's child. With simple text and colourful illustrations, All About the Gruffalo is the perfect introduction to the world of The Gruffalo for preschoolers.

Enjoy more Gruffalo novelty books: The Gruffalo: A Push, Pull and Slide Book and Gruffalo, Where Are You?: A Felt Flaps Book.

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About the Authors

Julia Donaldson has written some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, which together have sold over 18 million copies worldwide and have been translated into over one hundred languages. Her other books include Room on the Broom, Stick Man and Zog, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, The Hospital Dog, illustrated by Sara Ogilvie and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures, illustrated by Lydia Monks. Julia also writes fiction, including the Princess Mirror-Belle series, illustrated by Lydia Monks, as well as poems, plays and songs – and her brilliant live shows are always in demand. She was the UK Children’s Laureate 2011–13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. Julia divides her time between West Sussex and Edinburgh.

Axel Scheffler is a star illustrator whose instantly recognizable, warm and witty illustrations have achieved worldwide acclaim and numerous awards. Axel is the illustrator of wonderful novelty, gift and poetry books for Macmillan, such as Fish Who Dream of Trees (Two Hoots) and the bestselling The Bedtime Bear, The Tickle Book and Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes – and of course, he is the illustrator of some of the world's best-loved picture books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, which together have sold over 17 million copies worldwide. Axel’s artwork is exhibited internationally; he has illustrated for many charities and designed the Royal Mail Christmas stamps in 2012. Born in Hamburg, Axel now lives with his family in London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1035049473
• ISBN 13: 9781035049479
• Binding: Board book
• Illustrator: Scheffler Axel
• Number of pages: 10