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15:32 UK time, Friday, 22 October 2010

Re What's the Gruffalo about? When I was in Afghanistan last year I was able to read the book and get the recording posted to my 4 year old daughter. She loved it and pestered my fiancee to play it all the time, when I came back it was on the ´óÏó´«Ã½, narrated by James Corden, so we were able to sit down and watch it together. It was a fitting way to bring the recording, book and my daughter and I together. The story is brilliant in that it has the right combination of humour, terror (albeit for children!) and the underlying lesson of brains v brawn. I would recommend this story to anyone with young children.
Matt Rees, Plymouth, England

The Gruffalo is also written in iambic pentameter - fantastic to see something so popular making such a clear nod to great literature and not talking down to children.
RaeHub, UK

Tee hee - doesn't look very stealthy to me.
Simon, Cambridge

Ed Loach (Thursday letters), oh, dear, oh dear. So naive So sweet. [Laughs in a kindly manner.] Toll booths have been abolished here (if you pass through without an electronic tag, they film your numberplate and bill you swingingly). Do we have free-flowing traffic? Of course not. Don't trust the planners. They don't live where they are planning.
Susan Thomas, Brisbane, Australia

That is a bit mean Jing Liew (Thursday letters) - let the "one and only tree" have a share in everything under the sky as well.
Dave, Greenford, UK

I've been reading Magazine Monitor for a while now, but I still have no idea what nominal determinism is (Thursday letters).
Alex Kersting, Flitwick

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