to think that this girl is a bit old to be reading The Gruffalo?

[Melpomene]

Book token advert

She looks about 8 or 9 - surely The Gruffalo is aimed more at 3-5 year olds?

When I was supply teaching in a primary school[post early retirement]I always took a copy of the Gruffalo with me as an emergency lesson plan!
Yr 1 labelling-photocopy line drawings of gruff-read story and give out relevant colours put words on board eg black tongue,purple prickles,orange eyes-dc label appropriately right up to Yr6-what is the message of the story?Weak defeats ,small defeats large,clever defeats stupid etc.dc design and write a story with a similar message-arrange for them to read said stories to Reception class.
Super book-I love it :)

I doubt most 3-5 year olds could read The Gruffalo to themselves.
Not sure which book band it would be put at, but it wouldn't be the first few colours wouldn't think.
In Key Stage 1 lots of schools use picture books as reading books and they are levelled accordingly.

The Gruffalo is a good read no matter what age you are. I use a Gruffalo pencil case as a makeup bag!
At 8/9 years of age I was reading books aimed at my age group, at an older age group and I was reading my 5/6 year old brother's books.

Actually I would have a bit more sympathy if it was Room on the Broom, that's far superior to The Gruffalo IMO!

Obviously it doesn't really matter, I just saw the ad and it struck me as strange because I thought the girl looked 8-9 and in my experience an 8-9 year old would be far more likely to choose a chapter book than a picture book. My 8 year old dd still occasionally reads picture books which we have in the house but if she was choosing a new book to buy it would be a chapter book, definitely. If she did say she wanted to buy a picture book aimed at younger children I would encourage her to choose something more challenging - not because it's 'wrong' to want to read something aimed at younger readers but because we already have plenty of picture books in the house and I think she should be progressing to more complex books. Surely there's a difference between enjoying a toy/book that you've had in the house for years and you're getting a bit old for, and going out to buy a new toy/book?

However lots of you think the model in the ad looks six so it looks like I was overestimating her age. I can see that a child that age might choose it.

The Gruffalo is amazing! YABU!!!

YABU!! I am 48 and re read Ballet Shoes and a few of my old Enid Blyton books the other day. Good books encompass all ages

Why are most of the AIBUs lately just sticky-beakers? People who have to run down what somebody else is doing? It's really odd that they feel free to make judgements based on not very much information at all? It really does say a LOT about them.

Pudden Ballet Shoes is on my Christmas List :) I have read my copy to death, and found a lovely 1938 edition online!

YY IneedAbetterNickname... It's a timeless story and I've got several copies of it so I'm never without one close by.

but there is no such thing as a gruffalo!

I love Ballet Shoes! and White Boots!

she looks 6. My 6-yo would read this. Words like "astounding" and "amazing" don't trip off the page for many reception children.

Thursdays Child is on my Christmas list; it was made into a series back in the early 1970's

She would be very tall for a 6yo!!.My 6 yo is about a foot shorter than this model.I would say she is about 8 or 9, but I would say gruffalo is aimed at 3 to 7 ratherr than 3-5, but I could see it might appeal to older children.

Meh to the gruffalo-Stick man is far superior. My ds is 8 but struggles with reading-he still reads both as rhyming books are easier for him. Your stealth boast was crap-try harder.

Stick man brings a tear to my eye every time-will he ever get back to the family tree?....

I don't know too many 3-5 year olds who can read the Gruffalo by themselves. Do you?

I love the Gruffalo and I am 43.

Verdict: Books do not come with age restrictions. YABU.

Several copies? Really?

Okay, obviously I should never have cast aspersions on The Gruffalo and it is a great read for everyone from 9-99.

Seriously, I wasn't criticising anyone of any age that chooses to read it in real life, that would be unreasonable. I just was surprised they didn't choose a younger model for that advert because it didn't ring true to me that a child that age would select that particular book from a bookshop full of books (and that was based on my estimate that she was 8 or 9).

I understand the appeal of looking at kids' books, I've read a few chapters of dd's copy of 'Ramona and Beezus', but if I was designing an ad for books I wouldn't show someone of my age reading Ramona and Beezus.

Gonna bow out now.

It's a well known marketing trick...if a toy or book is for a 4 year old, then show a 6 year old playing with it.

Same reason they show pre teens playing with toys on TV when they're aimed at my 7 year old.

I'm not too old for the Gruffalo, so I am sure that she can't be.

Am I too old to read This

Love this book! I'm 31.

ds is 8. He can read, and enjoys, lots of chapter books (is currently into Tom Sawyer) but also reads, and enjoys, The Gruffalo occasionally. Especially if his younger cousins are around and he can read it to them.

I re-read The Railway Children a few months ago and blubbed when the Russian refugee was reunited with his family, as well as at 'Daddy, my Daddy'.

A mum of a little girl of five said to me yesterday "Oh yes, she used to go on CBeebies when she was younger". What does she go on now, Facebook?

When dd was 4 we won tickets to see the Gruffalo stage show.

She was by far the youngest child there. The rest were school parties of about reception to year 2 so around 4-7 years old.

At 6 ds's favourite book was a Lost & Found despite the fact he could read fluently he spent his christmas gift token on that.