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 su
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這兩個連續發生的故事，帶有跳躍的逆轉，值得收藏和一看再看。更何況還是【超值精裝】合輯！
《咕嚕?！返闹鹘?，可能不是咕嚕牛，而是那只狡猾的小老鼠了。最初，小老鼠虛構了一只駭人的大怪物：咕嚕牛。這只想象中的怪獸嚇走了那些把老鼠當美餐的天敵們。然而，咕嚕牛真的存在，而且就在小老鼠身后出現了……小老鼠的膽量、智慧以及它毫不猶豫的撒謊能力，讓人不知是該稱贊它好，還是恨它才好。
《咕嚕牛小妞妞》終于揭幕了，咕嚕牛警告他的小妞妞，千萬不要去密林里頭，那兒有只兇惡的大老鼠會抓住你?？墒?，一個風雪交加的晚上，小妞妞踮著腳尖，溜出了家……”風刮得猛，雪下得大，可是咕嚕牛小妞妞帶著既興奮又期待的眼神出發了，她想親自去確認爸爸的話……
A mouse is taking a stroll through the deep, dark wood when along comes a hungry fox, then an owl, and then a snake. The mouse is good enough to eat but smart enough to know this, so he invents . . . the gruffalo! As Mouse explains, the gruffalo is a creature with terrible claws, and terrible tusks in its terrible jaws, and knobbly knees and turned-out toes, and a poisonous wart at the end of its nose. But Mouse has no worry to show. After all, there’s no such thing as a gruffalo. .
