Classic Gift Collection（两册）

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From Publishers Weekly
The eponymous character
introduced by this British team owes a large debt to Maurice
Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. When Mouse meets Fox in the
"deep dark wood," he invents a story about the gruffalo, described
very much like Sendak's fearsome quartet of wild thingsA"He has
terrible tusks, and terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his
terrible jaws." The gullible fox runs away when Mouse tells him
that the gruffalo's favorite food is roasted fox. "Silly old Fox!"
says Mouse, "Doesn't he know?/ There's no such thing as a
gruffalo!" Owl and Snake follow suit until, with a turn of the
page, Mouse runs into the creature he has imagined. Quick-thinking
Mouse then tells the monster, "I'm the scariest creature in this
deep dark wood./ Just walk behind me and soon you'll see,/ Everyone
for miles is afraid of me." Fox, Owl and Snake appear to be
terrified of the tiny mouse, but readers can plainly see the real
object of their fears. By story's end, the gruffalo flees, and
Mouse enjoys his nut lunch in peace. Despite the derivative plot
line, debut author Donaldson manipulates the repetitive language
and rhymes to good advantage, supplying her story with plenty of
scary-but-not-too-scary moments. Scheffler's gruffalo may seem a
goofy hybrid of Max's wild things, but his cartoonlike
illustrations build suspense via spot-art previews of the monster's
orange eyes, black tongue and purple prickles until the monster's
appearance in full. Ages 4-8.

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