Animation · 2010s
The Gruffalo's Child
The Gruffalo's daughter goes looking for the Big Bad Mouse. Big mistake.
- Family-safe
- Good for kids
- Animated
Content note: The Big Bad Mouse and a dark, snowy wood may startle the very smallest
BBC One
2011
First shown 25 Dec 2011
- First shown
- 25 December 2011
- Channel
- BBC One
- Runtime
- 26 mins
- Genre
- Animation
Where to watch
- BBC iPlayer
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Two years after the original, BBC One took everyone back into the deep dark wood on Christmas Day. This time it's the Gruffalo's daughter who ignores her dad's warnings and tiptoes out into the snow to hunt for the Big Bad Mouse. Snake, Owl and Fox all turn up again, but there's no sign of the fabled Mouse. Or is there? Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's sequel keeps the rhyme and the smug rodent, with Shirley Henderson as the little Gruffalo, Robbie Coltrane as her dad and James Corden, John Hurt and Tom Wilkinson back in the trees. It's the perfect half hour between the turkey sandwiches and the next round of Quality Street.
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