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Title: The Enormous Crocodile
ISBN: 0142302457
Author:
Roald Dahl
Publicate Date: 2003-03-24
Publish: 2003-03-24
List Price: $7.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Fun and Exciting
We loved this book. My seven year thought it was super. What's not to like? An enourmous crocodile who wants to eat a juicy little child and is then thwarted by the other animals in the jungle.
It was hilarious the tricks the crocodile tried to get a child to eat and my son and I laughed when, time and again, he failed.
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2: Roald Dahl book
I love Roald Dahl so I was very pleased to find this book. I read it to my seven-year-old since it is a picture book. He didn't love it and neither did I. It just seemed a little, I don't know, mean or cruel. And I do get Roald Dahl, really I do. I just didn't like this one so much. I think the Minpins is a much better choice for a grade-school aged child picture book from Dahl.
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3: Delightful and a real child pleaser
Dahl's "The Enormous Crocdile" is a favourite of our 3.5 and 6.5 year olds, but it is the whimsical dead-on illustrations of Quentin Blake that make this edition outstanding.
The story follows the course of an enormous crocodile who wants to eat a little child for lunch, and leaves his muddy river to do so. On his way he encounters a hippopotamus, a monkey, a bird of paradise, and finally an elephant who all are horrified by his "plans and clever tricks" that he has in mind to eat up several juicy children.
The crocodile makes his way to a town, and deploys his methods, some of which are indeed clever. It is here where Quentin Blake's strengths come in, as the disguises are both simultaneously all-crocodile, and all disguise: only an outstanding artist like Blake could have pulled it off. My children squealed with delight.
Of course, Dahl's sense of humour is of times a bit dark, but make no mistake, the crocodile gets his just deserts even though there are thrills a-plenty on the way.
Delightful, but probably best saved until a child is over three years old and recognizes the fun and whimsy implied in the enormous crocodile's horrid mission.
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4: Tasty reading
The Enormous Crocodile is a delicious tale! My four-year-old son really loves this book. He sits very still while we read this book which if a feat for most kids his age. It is very hard finding books to capture the imagination of a gifted little boy but this one does it perfectly! I highly recommend it and "The Magic Finger", also by Dahl.
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5: Was he just kidding?
The American crocodile, crocodylus acutus, is a threatened species, although I never threatened one. You're not supposed to kill it, so Trunky the elephant would have been doing something bad if he had been in America, only in this story they're in Africa, so Trunky won't go to jail or anything. In any case you can't really throw things up to the sun and make them sizzle up. The sun is ninety six million miles away. Trunky never gives the Enormous Crocodile a chance to explain, and Trunky is much bigger than the Enormous Crocodile. Perhaps the Enormous Crocodile was just kidding.
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