They are known as the "Ugly Five" of the African wilderness: the ugly wildebeest, the dreadful hyena, the bald vulture, the bristly warthog, and the hunchbacked marabou. In Julia Donaldson's story, the Ugly Five happily sing and stomp through the world. Because they already know what their children love to shout: "You five are so beautiful, you are the best in the world!" In any case, they have never been so charmingly rhymed as by Julia Donaldson and so beautifully illustrated as by Axel Scheffler. A picture book for reading aloud from the creators of the world-famous "Gruffalo.".