That's *exactly* what I heard in my head when I first saw this woman's name Jude! A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood (and was far more frightened by QVC fashion than any imaginary creature encountered en route :grin
To go off-topic for a sec, my Dad has a friend who lives next door to Axel Scheffler and last Christmas he procured a copy of The Gruffalo, dedicated by Axel to my son, with an original never-to-be-repeated drawing of said Gruffalo grinning at my little boy! Cue paroxysms of delight in this house :mysmilie_852:
. I wanted to stick it on Ebay, sell it to some Yummy Mummy with an identically named son (there are thousands of them I know) and stack the proceeds off our mortgage, but I was over-ruled and it's now sitting proudly on a shelf in The Gruffalo Cave (otherwise known as my four year old's bedoom :grin