The Gruffalo comes to life at Birmingham Town Hall

The Gruffalo at Birmingham Town Hall in July and August (s)

POPULAR children's story The Gruffalo is set to come to life.

Voted the nation’s number one bedtime story by BBC Radio 2 listeners, stage version of

the award-winning picture book by Children’s Laureate Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler has been performed to well over a million people the world over and has even hit the small screens in a star-studded TV animation.

And you can join Mouse on his adventurous journey through the deep, dark wood in Tall Stories' musical adaptation at Birmingham Town Hall from July 31 to August 5.

Meet a wheeler-dealer Fox, an eccentric old Owl and a maraca-shaking, party mad Snake - all scared by Mouse with tall stories of the terrifying Gruffalo, but what happens when he comes face to face with the very creature he imagined?

There are 12 performances of the hour-long show during its run in Birmingham.

Tickets, costing £10.50, are on sale online at www.thsh.co.uk or by calling the box office on 0121 345 0600.

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