The Monster in Children's Books

There's a theme in most of these stories to include a terrible monster which perplexes me we're so precious about taking care of our children. evolutionary psychologists say is part of the innate fear that wild cats like saber tooth tigers instilled in us through the hundreds of thousands of years we lived side by side. I think I would have slapped a lot sounder without my parents reminding me of all the monsters in the world but later turned out to be fiction anyway back to finding out about the monster in this story his eyes are orange and his tongue is black and he has purple prickles all over his backOh oh help oh no it's a gruffalo are you ready for this voice