This book is my all time favourite. It is a rhyming book about a mouse that strolls through a forest and is invited for dinner by a fox an owl and snake however mouse does not want to have dinner with them so creates and excuse which involves a monster that she makes up called a gruffalo when the gruffalo actually appears she makes him think that she is feared by the animals in the forest by asking him to walk behind her and when they see the monster he think s that they are fearing her. i rate this book a 5 out of 5.