If you have young children and aren't familiar with the Gruffalo books then shame, great shame on you. Unfortunately there are only two books available at the moment so, after a hike through my local nature reserve with the kids, I was inspired to complete the trilogy.
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*Ahem*
Amid rolling moorland in Britain's south-east
Lurked a terrible monster, a frightening beast
As big as a bus and stronger than steel
He made crocodiles cower and elephants squeal
A fiend like this does exist you know
There is such a thing as a Gruffalo
A Gruffalo hunter set out one morn
Once he'd finished his booze and run out of porn
He entered the moorland and trekked on a trail
He walked and he walked, up hill and down dale
The hunter grew weary, this was a chore
But he rounded a corner and suddenly saw...
A print in the mud, my oh my, could it be?
"A Gruffalo paw mark!" He shouted with glee
With a spring in his stride he continued his charge
He didn't care if the critter was large
He'd slay it with ease, but what the fuck's that?
Batten down the hatches, it's Gruffalo scat!
Slightly perturbed by the size of its shit
The Gruffalo hunter thought he might split
And passing some ashes he had quite the hunch
That the big bastard Gruffalo had just eaten lunch
"Man up! Stay tough!" thought the Gruffalo hunter
"Go on and get him, get busy ya kunt ya!"
He scoured the landscape so barren and void
The Gruffalo hunter was getting annoyed
Kicking his heels, he now had the proof
That the 'big bad Gruffalo' was a big fucking poof
Best to head home, perchance to wank
But as usual he drank, and he drank... and he drank