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At the start of this year, I wrote a column about the striking number of political leaders who have young children, in which I pondered the political effects of inhabiting what I called the Gruffalo Years.
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At the start of this year, I wrote a column about the striking number of political leaders who have young children, in which I pondered the political effects of inhabiting what I called the Gruffalo Years.
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The mouse manages to outwit these other animals by telling them about a monstrous thing known as a Gruffalo voice of Robbie Coltrane. — Jennifer Sankowski
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For millions of middle-class Britons they are perhaps best described as the Gruffalo years: an innocent interlude stretching from birth to a child's ninth birthday or so.
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For millions of middle-class Britons they are perhaps best described as the Gruffalo years: an innocent interlude stretching from birth to a child's ninth birthday or so.
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Robbie Coltrane will voice the Gruffalo, which is at the heart of BBC1's Christmas schedule Photograph: BBC/MAGIC LIGHT COMPANY/BBC
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This year's list was seized on by Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo the single most borrowed children's book which helped boost her to number seven on the list as evidence of the importance to children of libraries.
Children's authors dominate list of favourite UK library books 2011
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Julia Donaldson may have resisted an ebook of The Gruffalo so far, for instance, but you can get a sort of steam-punk equivalent, in the form of an edition accompanied by a pad of electronic buttons that make owl or mouse noises as appropriate when you press them.
Don't fear the Reader: how technology can benefit children's books 2011
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By inventing a fearsome friend, the Gruffalo, who has terrible tusks, terrible claws and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws.
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Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo, which was the most borrowed children's book in UK libraries last year.
Children's authors dominate list of favourite UK library books 2011
alexz commented on the word Gruffalo
A fictional monster.
June 23, 2016
bilby commented on the word Gruffalo
If only we had a rhyme for it.
June 23, 2016
alexz commented on the word Gruffalo
Buffalo Gruffalo buffalo Buffalo Brusselo ...
June 23, 2016
bilby commented on the word Gruffalo
Mark Ruffalo, where are you when we need you?
June 24, 2016
qms commented on the word Gruffalo
Now, bilby, I weary of guff you throw.
This really is more than enough, you know.
I haven't the time
To search for a rhyme
For something as silly as Gruffalo.
June 24, 2016
bilby commented on the word Gruffalo
I wasn't expecting even a gruff hello
Nor a grudging nod from a tough fellow
But your Gruffalo verse
Strikes me as way too terse;
I'm calling your limerick bluff a low
June 25, 2016
qms commented on the word Gruffalo
Intending a light and fluffy show
I came across as stuffy though.
Please pardon my folly.
I aimed to be jolly
But struck, it seems, too rough a blow.
June 25, 2016
alexz commented on the word Gruffalo
... comes from a blend of Grizzly and Buffalo.
June 25, 2016
bilby commented on the word Gruffalo
I think I'm limericked out. Enoughalo :-/
June 26, 2016
ruzuzu commented on the word Gruffalo
So, wait. It was a fight?
Well, kinda--but with limericks.
Limericks?
Yeah, and it was super polite.
--the very next conversation I'm going to have about why I adore this site
June 27, 2016
bilby commented on the word Gruffalo
<i>gun wordslinger said:
"Don't bring fucking haikus to
a limerick fight."</i>
June 28, 2016
qms commented on the word Gruffalo
If challenged to poems at dawn
Let doubting be banished and gone.
Your foe cannot strike you
If he's armed with haiku
And you have your limerick drawn.
June 28, 2016