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* W.H. Smith Children’s Book of the Year
* British Book Awards
* Red House Childrens’ Book Award
* Southampton Book Award
* Nottingham Book Award


전편인 Gruffalo에서 재치로 위기를 넘긴 생쥐가 이번에는 그루팔로의 아이를 만납니다.

아빠 그루팔로로 부터 수년 전에 무시무시한 생쥐를 만났다는 얘기를 듣고 자란 어린 그루팔로는 눈내리는 어느날 밤에 용기를 내서 무서운 생쥐를 찾아 나섭니다. 아빠가 들려준 무시무시한 생쥐의 모습은 길다란 꼬리와 불타는 듯이 빨간 눈, 그리고 강철보다 강한 콧수염을 갖고 있다고 들었습니다. 하지만 어린 그루팔로가 만난 동물들은 꼬리가 긴 뱀과 눈이 반짝반짝 빛나는 올빼미, 그리고 길다란 콧수염을 지닌 여우를 만났습니다만, 모두 생쥐는 아니었지요. 마침내 조그만 생쥐를 만난 어린 그루팔로는 생쥐를 먹어버리려고 합니다만, 이번에도 생쥐는 기발한 꾀를 내서 위기를 모면하네요...

재미있고 유쾌한 이야기입니다. Rhyme으로 되어 있는 쉬운 문장은 아이들에게 읽어 주기도 어렵지 않습니다. 물론 그림도 재미있고 예쁘답니다.






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Edition: Paperback(32 pages)
ISBN-10: 0142407542
ISBN-13: 978-0142407547
책 크기: 27cm x 21.5cm



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Book Description
One night the Gruffalo's child goes into the woods to find the Big Bad Mouse, a creature her father met years ago. After much searching, the child stumbles upon a little mouse . . . and decides to eat him. Suddenly a terrible shadow falls on the ground. Could it be the Big Bad Mouse? Or maybe the little mouse is bigger and badder than the Gruffalo's child thinks.
Like The Gruffalo, an international bestseller, this funny and suspenseful read-aloud reminds readers that sometimes the smallest among us are also the strongest.


Publishers Weekly
Using a plot line and characters familiar to fans of The Gruffalo, this sequel introduces the appealing Gruffalo's child, a wide-eyed, fuzzy gal with barely budding horns, who goes in search of the mythical Big Bad Mouse. The repetitious tag lines ("Aha! Oho! A trail in the snow!/ Whose is this trail and where does it go?") speed the plot along as the brave Gruffalo's child decides that neither snake nor owl match her father's description of the villain in question. Scheffler's amiable depiction of the baby gruffalo in "the deep dark wood" builds up plenty of empathy for the galumphing youngster, who finally meets the mouse hero of the first Gruffalo tale. From this point on readers' sympathies and understanding of the story's theme may be tugged in more than one direction as the amiable Gruffalo child reveals his monster nature and decides to gobble up the mouse for a midnight treat. Then the clever mouse tricks the baby and sends the frightened Gruffalo child scurrying back to papa, and it's the mouse who follows the footprints ("Aha! Oho!") . They lead him to the cave where the Gruffalo's child, "a bit less brave... [and] a bit less bored," snuggles in the protective arms of her father. Scheffler fills the illustrations with child-friendly images-the mouse's Gruffalo snowman, and the furry female's cave drawings-to make this Gruffalo child seem not very scary at all.


Children's Literature
It is hard to duplicate a successful story with a sequel, and harder still if you are using rhyme, rhythm, and lots of parallels. Julia Donaldson (once again teamed up with Axel Scheffler) manages to brilliantly follow The Gruffalo with The Gruffalo's Child. In the first book a clever little mouse outwits predators by dreaming up a monstrous Gruffalo. When a real Gruffalo appears, the fast-thinking hero confuses and gets the better off him, too. All this is combined with a blend of story, suspense, rhymes, refrains, humor, and surprises. Has the mouse met his match? Round two starts when the brave little Gruffalo's daughter decides she will take on this mouse. Her father warns that his "eyes are like pools of terrible fire, and his terrible whiskers are tougher than wire." Similarities are evident in illustrations, story patterns, a returning cast of characters, tricky plot twists, and a repeatable chorus that makes for perfect transitions. Finally the Gruffalo's child finds the mouse that looks small but "at least" will "taste good as a midnight feast." The mouse, up to his usual sharpness, leaps to a tree branch where the moon light behind him creates a terrible shadow that falls on the ground, frightening the brave Gruffalo girl back into the cave and her father's sleeping arms.


School Library Journal
In this sequel to The Gruffalo (Dial, 1999), the wide-eyed daughter of that story's title character decides to find the "Big Bad Mouse" that her father has told her so much about. "His eyes are like pools of terrible fire,/and his terrible whiskers are tougher than wire." With her stick doll tucked under her arm, the youngster enters the deep, dark woods and follows marks in the snow to snake, owl, and fox. When she finally finds a little mouse, she grabs him for a feast, but the clever creature tricks her into running away to the comfort of her sleeping father's arms. The full-color cartoons portray a suitably sympathetic child in the snow-filled woods. While children may appreciate the details (the stick doll, snake tracks in the snow, gruffalo child's cave drawings) in the art, lack of change from picture to picture and in perspective diminish its effectiveness. The plot, rhymes, and art are all slightly weaker than the original tale. Purchase this where the first book is popular.