"The Gruffalo" is fine, but literature is more about depth than novelty. A book like Eoin McLaughlin's "The Hug" is just as easy to understand and also has a un

"The Gruffalo" is fine, but literature is more about depth than novelty. A book like Eoin McLaughlin's "The Hug" is just as easy to understand and also has a unique construction that makes it like "no other children's book". That doesn't make either "The Gruffalo" or "The Hug" comparable to the depth of works like "Winnie the Pooh", "Where the Wild Things Are", or "The Story of Ferdinand".