Free children's story download: The Gruffalo

Exclusive to The Independent, this series of live recordings of children’s audiobooks is available to download for one week only.

Devised by the Audio Publishing Association to highlight the importance of group reading, the recordings feature some of the nation’s best loved children’s storytellers reading to groups of children aged four to seven.

The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

‘Silly old fox, doesn’t he know? There’s no such thing as a Gruffalo!’ Isn’t there? So who is this terrible beast with terrible claws, and terrible tusks in its terrible jaws, and knobbly knees and turned-out toes, and a poisonous wart at the end of its nose? Find out when the brave little mouse takes a walk through the deep dark woods in this classic children’s tale, performed with gusto by Julia Donaldson and a plucky group of children.

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