Daughter gruffalo

One winter, Gruffalo tells the family about his meeting with the Little Mouse, warning that it’s better to stay away from this terrible beast:

Then Gruffalo falls asleep, but his little daughter, who is bored of sitting in a cave, goes in search of the Little Mouse in the thicket. She stumbles upon the tracks of the Snake, Owl and Fox, taking them for the tracks of the Little Mouse. However, when meeting with the beasts, she sees that they do not fit the description.

Finally, gruffalenok meets the little Mouse and decides to eat it. However, Little Mouse says that now he will call his terrible and mighty friend. The little mouse climbs onto a tree and, in the light of the moon, casts a huge shadow on the snow. Having taken this shadow for the shadow of the most terrible creature that Papa-Gruffalo spoke about, the daughter runs away in horror to the cave to Papa, where he falls asleep:

The book was published in Russia in 2006 in the translation of Marina Boroditskaya , in the series “Machines of Creation” by the publishing house “ Creation of Machines ”.

Audio Version

In 2006, the audiobook “The daughter of Gruffalo” was published, also voiced by actress Imelda Staunton . ^[one]

Animation

In 2011, the book was filmed a half-hour animated film "A daughter of Gruffalo ", in which the characters were voiced by famous actors. As in his previous film Gruffalo , additional characters were introduced into the story — Belka, which tells the squirrel the story of Gruffalo’s daughter and Little Mouse.

• The wand-man, whom the daughter of Gruffalo holds in her hands, including on the cover of the book, served as a source of inspiration for one of the following books by Donaldson and Scheffler “ Human Rights ".