The Glasgow Gruffalo: The Gruffalo in Glaswegian

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I promised I would read the Glasgow Gruffalo for my granddaughter and her wee pals, and then we decided why not share it so all the kids can have a listen."

And we clearly see a real, live, gruffalo! He seems to be half a grizzly bear and half a buffalo. And when he spots the mouse: Funnily enough, I find it harder to write not in verse, though I feel I am now getting the hang of it! 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. I have just finished writing a novel for teenagers. When Kerry told the youngster that her favourite author had seen the video, she couldn't believe it. Read More Related Articles When my daughter texted to say I’d got thousands of views I thought it was funny and a bit weird but we’re now at 600k and I’m getting messages from pals all over the place saying they’ve watched it!

The Gruffalo has become a 'standard' (one of those books every kid should have...) and I was surprised to find how much I liked it!

But I was 15 when The Gruffalo was published... listening to Rage Against The Machine and lamenting the over-commercialised tat we peddle to our children... To my teenage self, The Gruffalo was just another hook to get parents buying their kids more crap: a symbol of a broken system. Obviously, I never read it - but I was aware there was a TV adaptation made (with much fanfare) and a sequel book, etc.I also continued to write “grown-up” songs and perform them in folk clubs and on the radio, and have recently released two CDs of these songs. Julia Donaldson, the 2011-2013 Children's Laureate, is the outrageously talented, prize-winning author of the world's most-loved picture books including The Gruffalo and What the Ladybird Heard. It begins with a simple idea, of a little brown mouse taking a walk in a “deep dark wood”. We see a lovely illustration of the deep dark wood before the story begins … and the small child I read it to thought he might just be able to spy something sinister behind the trees, although he didn’t know the story at all … So we begin: Everybody loves The Gruffalo's Child and now you can enjoy this children's classic for the very first time in Glaswegian! Translated by Elaine C. Smith and published by Itchy Coo, this new edition of The Gruffalo's Child will delight both children and adults alike. The video is an entire reading of the book, in a traditional strong accent, with the language and descriptions adapted to include typical and common Scottish phrases. To describe the Gruffalo, Elaine C Smith reads: