What Time Is It, Mr. Crocodile?

by Judy Sierra

Paperback, 2004

Status

Available

Call number

823.914

Genres

Children's Books

Publication

Gulliver Books (2004), 30 pages

Description

Mr. Crocodile's plans to catch and eat some pesky monkeys do not work out and he becomes friends with them instead.

User reviews

LibraryThing member slblack2

Mr. Crocodile starts his day planning what he will do. Monkeys ask ever hour or so What time is it, Mr. Crocodile? The Crocodile tells the monkeys what he is about to do. The whole day Mr.Crocodile plans on eating the monkeys. He goes to the grocery store to get food to cook with the monkeys. But

when it comes time to catch the monkeys his plan backfires. The monkeys become Mr.Crocodile's friend. Then at the end of his day Mr. Crocodile plans what he and his monkey friends will do tomorrow.

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LibraryThing member smmote

This book is about a crocodile that makes a plan for each new day. Mr. Crocodile tries to follow his schedule, but five pesky monkeys keep ruining his plans. Each page has great pictures and on one side reads: "What time is it, Mr. Crocodile?" and the other explains using rhyming words what he is

supposed to be doing. This is a fun book to read to grades K-2 to enjoy rhyming words and reading about Mr. Crocodile following his schedule and how the five monkeys interfere.

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LibraryThing member sdlucas

This book is about Mr. Crocodile making plans for his day. His plans included catching monkeys and eating them. The monkeys kept asking him what time is was and in the end Mr. Crocodile and the monkeys became friends. This is a good rhyming book and would be great for k-2.

LibraryThing member amber85

Mr. Crocodile is planning his time schedule from the time he gets up till he goes to bed at night. He goes from brushing his teeth, putting his clothes on, and then eating breakfast at a cafe. He travels to play in the ocean then skate boarding and to go to the store to make dinner. After that he

goes home to get bath then starts to prepare dinner by using monkeys. Then he decides at the end he would rather have the monkeys as friends than food.

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LibraryThing member stevekep32

Clever rhyming book. Mr. Crocodile tells the monkeys all about what he does during each part of his day.

LibraryThing member bestabler

Mr. Crocodile has pesky monkeys in his house. He plans to catch, cook, and eat them. After spending the day with them, he can't catch them and they decide to be friends.

LibraryThing member CardCatalogue

A pleasant, rhyming read-aloud with playful characters. Mr. Crocodile, who initially wanted to eat the pesky monkeys, ends up finding pleasure in the playful monkeys antics. Young children will delight in the prose and the bright, colourful illustrations.

LibraryThing member mopbroek07

Age: Primary

This book is a good example of poetry because it is written in verse, with rhythm and rhyme. This particular poem was written to make telling time interesting and fun for children, encouraging them to learn more about the subject.

LibraryThing member bac031

Mr. Crocodile has planned his day out starting from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00p.m., and each hour the monkeys ask "what time is it"? What they do not know is that Mr. Crocodile has plans of eating them. By the end of the book, he has a change of plans and wants to be friends with the monkeys instead. This

book can also be used in math when learning time because almost everything page has a clock, and the students would be able to interact to say out loud what time it was.

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LibraryThing member landism

Mr. Crocodile has many different things to do today and the pesky monkeys keep getting in his way! This book tells the story of how Mr. Crocodile and the monkeys eventually become friends by the end of the day. Colorful illustrations cover each page, which is great. I used this book when

introducing kindergarten students to the concept of a timeline and it worked very well. The kindergarteners quickly caught onto the fact that there are clocks on every page. I think this book also contains an important message about the importance of being kind to others. This book is appropriate for kindergarten and first graders, although second graders would probably enjoy it too.

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LibraryThing member rretzler

Mr. Crocodile's very organized day revolves around catching and eating the mischievous monkeys. However, as he spends time with the monkeys, he soon finds out he has become attached to them.

This was a rhyming book with very colorful pictures. My children enjoyed having it read to them when they

were little.

On the other hand, I was very disappointed with the book. We own another of Judy Sierra's books, "Wild About Books" and it was so well-done that this book paled in comparison. I might have liked Mr. Crocodile if I hadn't read the other, but I just never quite warmed to it.

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LibraryThing member lpicke2

I loved this book. I enjoyed the rhyming of the words because it made the book fun and exciting to read. I also liked the illustrations of Mr. Crocodile’s to do list from the beginning of the book to the end of the book. Even though Mr. Crocodile was going to originally catch the pesky monkeys,

cook the pesky monkeys, and eat the pesky monkeys, he changed his plan. He changed his to do list for the next day by saying he would play catch with the nice monkeys, cook dinner for the nice monkeys, and eat dinner with the nice monkeys. The big idea of this story is that we should not judge a book by its cover, because in the end, you may turn out to like something instead of hating it.

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