The Gruffalo

In an autumn forest, a red squirrel mother finds a nut. Her children are playing until they see an owl. The mother squirrel drops the nut as she escapes from the owl, but her children ask her to tell them a story before she retrieves it. So she tells the story of a mouse strolling through a deep dark wood. The mouse tries to find a nut to eat so he makes a journey to a beautiful nut tree. He encounters three animals along the way who wish to eat him - Fox, Owl and Snake - the brave mouse creates a terrifying, imaginary monster to frighten them away. But what will the mouse do when he meets this frightful monster for real?