Happy birthday Gruffalo!
Thursday, May 28th, 2009, Travels, whanau, life
I couldn’t resist sharing this clip of Julia Donaldson and her husband singing Happy Birthday to the Gruffalo. A bright spot on a dull winter’s day.
The fearsome but loveable Gruffalo turned 10 years old in March. There are monster celebrations at the official website, as well as loads of other fun.
Don’t get tempted to search for Gruffalo on YouTube – there are 94 results: moms and pops reading to their children, live performances, interviews with the author, and an Iron Maiden song – huh!
On a more grown-up note, I first discovered the anniversary by chance through a video on the Guardian website from the Hay literary festival: “Julia Donaldson talks about her monster creation The Gruffalo” (26 May 2009). On an adjacent page, Robert McCrum takes a more rarified tack reaching back to the 17th century, see “The giant of modern literature? It has to be The Gruffalo”.
Any excuse to finish up early, I’m off to read a book to my daughter. Perhaps another of Donaldson’s picture books – which I don’t find burdensome to read over and over and over – like “Sharing a shell” or “Room on the Broom”.
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