Initially I thought I received a damaged product since sound buttons were not working, even tried after changing battery position. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Press the twelve sound buttons in the pages of the story to make Julia Donaldson’s classic tale of The Gruffalo come alive! Her other books include Room on the Broom, Stick Man and Zog, illustrated by Axel Scheffle r, The Hospital Dog , illustrated by Sara Ogilvie and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures, illustrated by Lydia Monks. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

The sound buttons are a bit harder to press than other sound books and my son often needs help to press hard enough. As this is my favourite children's book of the day, I just had to get it for him and I thought it was the perfect introduction to books and story telling. We havwe been receiving our storybook subscription for around 18 months and I can't see us stopping anytime soon. I felt they enhanced the story quite nicely, although a lot of people seem to be saying they found it distracting. The ideal gift for all Gruffalo fans, The Gruffalo: A Noisy Storybook is also the perfect introduction to this family favourite .Her other books include The Hospital Dog illustrated by Sara Ogilvie, The Christmas Pine illustrated by Victoria Sandøy and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures illustrated by Lydia Monks. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

The books are wonderful, interactive in a variety of ways, are inclusive/diverse with a variety of subjects. Press the twelve sound buttons in the pages of the story to make Julia Donaldson’s classic tale of The Gruffalo come alive! This is a fab book for young children; the story is lovely, and the sound buttons are a great way of involving the child in the story-telling process. Walk further into the deep dark wood, and discover what happens when a quick-witted mouse comes face to face with an owl, a snake .Julia Donaldson has written some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which together have sold over 25 million copies worldwide and have been translated into over one hundred languages. The book looks thick but the back part doesn’t have pages as I gather this is where the battery fits. The ideal gift for all Gruffalo fans, The Gruffalo Sound Book is also the perfect introduction to this family favourite . You just can't *not* love the story of the Gruffalo with its delicious rhymes and sly central character.

This award-winning rhyming story of a mouse and a monster has found its way into the hearts and bedtimes of an entire generation of children and will undoubtedly continue to enchant children for years and years to come.

Discover Julia Donaldson stories to spark the imagination of your little one, plus the latest events and activities based on her bestselling books, in The Gruffalo and Other Stories newsletter. Axel’s artwork is exhibited internationally; he has illustrated for many charities and designed the Royal Mail Christmas stamps in 2012. Axel is the illustrator of wonderful novelty, gift and poetry books for Macmillan, such as Fish Who Dream of Trees (Two Hoots) and the bestselling The Bedtime Bear , The Tickle Book and Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes – and of course, he is the illustrator of some of the world's best-loved picture books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child , which together have sold over 17 million copies worldwide.