The Enormous Crocodile

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Summary: The Enormous Crocodile
Review: Every time the crocodile tried to eat the children, other animals came in to help the kids get away. I thought this was a little funny. My favorite part was when Roly-Poly bird was trying to get away, all of his feathers came flying out! I think kids will like this book.

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Summary: Sheer pleasure for all ages!
Review: I dare you to pick up this book in a book store, read the first page to your child and then tell him you're not going to buy it. You'll never get away with it. Roald Dahl excels at writing stories that grip the reader in the first paragraph and don't let go until the end. If you can't get your child to read, let Roald Dahl come to the rescue. Even if you have to read it yourself, your kid will want to read it afterwards. This is a great Roald Dahl starter.

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Summary: fun book, but the ending falls short
Review: I really enjoyed "The Enormous Crocodile." It is one heck of a tale. But the abrupt and rather too serious ending leaves me pondering the greatness that could have been.

The story follows the exploits of the tittle character as he sets off one morning to find something to eat. He has a hankering for children from the nearby village. He broadcasts his desire to the other creatures of the jungle as he passes them.

The only problem is that besides being greedy and ill-intentioned, the crocodile is also nasty to his fellow wild creatures. This comes back to haunt him.

The story is a masterpiece of dry humor. Its verbal pacing is darn near flawless. The illustrations are great. Several (especially of the Crocodile's disguises) made me laugh.

Outside of the ending, I highly recommend "The Enormous Crocodile."

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Summary: Always loved it
Review: I really enjoyed "The Enormous Crocodile." It is one heck of a tale. But the abrupt and rather too serious ending leaves me pondering the greatness that could have been.

The story follows the exploits of the tittle character as he sets off one morning to find something to eat. He has a hankering for children from the nearby village. He broadcasts his desire to the other creatures of the jungle as he passes them.

The only problem is that besides being greedy and ill-intentioned, the crocodile is also nasty to his fellow wild creatures. This comes back to haunt him.

The story is a masterpiece of dry humor. Its verbal pacing is darn near flawless. The illustrations are great. Several (especially of the Crocodile's disguises) made me laugh.

Outside of the ending, I highly recommend "The Enormous Crocodile."

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Summary: Possibly the most wickedly funny children's book, ever!
Review: Roald Dahl out-grimm's Grimms' with this tale of a horrid, hoggish brute of a crocodile who connives to eat small, juicy little children. My little one cringed, squealed and cajoled the villian with each new encounter and as he is thwarted in his "secret plans and clever tricks". This book has everything a child relishes: name-calling, suspense, jungle animals, children in peril and a thoroughly loathsome, yet undeniably silly, villian. Dahl has created a dialogue-driven story with vividly over-the-top characters, making this a wonderful read-aloud book! Abundantly illustrated by Quentin Blake's loopy pen-and-ink cartoons with a watercolor wash, this is a wickedly fun package that only gets better with each read and will please kids and adults alike. Beg, borrow, steal, or even BUY this book if it comes down to that!

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Summary: Enormous Crocodile
Review: The author is Roald Dahl. He wrote this book called The Enormous Crocodile. The Enormous Crocodile is about two crocodiles. One tries to eat the children but his plans never work. His friends help the children get away from the Enormous Crocodile. They are tired of the crocodile's secret plans and clever tricks. I think this book is really excellent.

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Summary: Crocodile Review
Review: The Enormous Crocodile is a fun story with animals of all sorts. The Enormous Crocodile plans to get children, but the plans fail because of the animals. It is like a fun mystery. And the story has so much suspense. There is an elephant, a Roly Poly bird, a monkey and a hippo named Humpy Rumpy.

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Summary: Enormously Fun
Review: The Enormous Crocodile, written by the late great Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake, is the story of a large crocodile who wants to eat a child for lunch. During his trip to find a juicy child the crocodile tells the other animals he meets up with, "I have secret plans and clever tricks." Each animal later helps to foil the crocodile's lunch plans. The various illustrations of the crocodile trying to carry out his mission are sheer hilarity. In one illustration the crocodile pretends to be one of the wooden animals on a merry-go-round during a carnival. In another the crocodile pretends to be a seesaw on a playground. The crocodile's comeuppance at the end of the story completes a wickedly funny tour de force. Roald Dahl's writing is delicious and full of playful rhymes ("The sort of things that I am going to eat have fingers, toe-nails, arms and legs and feet!") which only add to the fun. The Enormous Crocodile is enormously entertaining

Preston McClear,