The Gruffalo storybook carvings at Kilmardinny Loch are really lovely and even if you and your little haven’t read the book I’m sure you’ll enjoy seeing the carvings of the various animals and characters. There is quite a lot of detail in them too, so lots for tiny tots to explore (and labradors, apparently). Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's The Gruffalo has become a bestselling phenomenon across the world.

My novel THE GIANTS AND THE JONESES is going to be made into a film by the same team who made the Harry Potter movies, and I have written three books of stories about the anarchic PRINCESS MIRROR-BELLE who appears from the mirror and disrupts the life of an otherwise ordinary eight-year-old.We work closely with publishers and authors to ensure that we offer the best books on the market for your child.

A video of Jessica reading the Glasgow adaption of the children's book has been viewed by thousands on Facebook. This award-winning rhyming story of a mouse and a monster is now a modern classic, and will enchant children for years to come. Although we didn’t take ours, it looks like it would be pretty good for scooters and little bikes and whatever other wheeled vehicles kids want to bring out with them. But the Gruffalo's Wean is pure gallus and tough,and wan wintry night she dauners oot intaethe snow.One of our brillint wee finds from this attempt at visiting all the parks within Glasgow Council area is definitely the Gruffalo Trail at Mount Vernon Park. The little lady and her little friend were walking the whole way round though, and with all the excitement of leaves and blades of grass and twigs and berries and mud and of course the gruffalo characters, it took us over an hour and a half to get round it. A Scots youngster has gone viral for her brilliant reading of the Glasgow Gruffalo as the original author hailed it as "wonderful". The video of four-year-old Jessica has been viewed over 38,000 by people from as far afield as Australia, America and Italy. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

However if you’re beside the community centre and you turn around towards the woods, head up the wee path into the woods behind you and you will find the Gruffalo, owl, fox and a bunch of other lovely wooden carvings from the book. I really enjoy getting the children in the audience to help me act out the stories and sing the songs.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. Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's The Gruffalo's Child has become a bestselling phenomenon across the world.

Illustrated by Axel Scheffler, The Gruffalo has sold more than 3m copies since it was first published in 1999. Eleven exciting translations of these popular books are also available in different dialects of Scots including Doric, Dundonian, Shetland and Orcadian. There’s also a wooden train station with two wooden trains, and a wooden play area with climbing bits and assault course style stuff.

We’d heard that a Gruffalo had been spotted in the woods around Kilmardinny Loch in Bearsden, so last week we thought we’d take a trip out there to see if we could find him. The publisher also released a Scots version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory last month, in which translator Matthew Fitt transformed the Oompa Loompas into the Heedrum-Hodrums, Violet Beauregarde into Violet Boakregarde and the Great Glass Elevator into Wullie Wonka’s Muckle Gless Lift. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you.