The Gruffalo
A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood,
A fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good.
“Where are you going to, little brown mouse?
Come and have lunch in my underground house.”
“It’s terribly kind of you, Fox, but no –
I’m going to have lunch with a Gruffalo.”
These are the first lines of the popular children’s book “The Gruffalo” which was first published in the UK in 1999 and has sold more than 13 million copies all around the world since.