The Enormous Crocodile

Fabulous story about a nasty, mean, hungry crocodile with big ideas of 'tricks and plans'. Of course he gets his comuppance and no children get eaten. Dahl's get story keeps the children engaged and they love it. Lots of related activities on line.

I give this book a 2 star because it could have more details and more interesting words.

A very cute children's book. Roald Dahl is an excellent children's author and creates books that are a little twisted, but not enough to scare children. He creates a wonderful and an interesting story (even if it is just a few pages long).

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

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Minpins is a much better choice for a grade-school aged child picture book from Dahl.

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This is a very cute children's book. The picture and story is so wonderful and an interesting.

Well, that was disturbing.

This is usually another must read when I watch the neighbor's kids. The book is about a crocodile whom plans to go and eat children, but all his plans and actions are foiled by other of the forest creatures. The main theme of the book is that you should not plan to do bad things.

I like this silly

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book, It is a fun book about doing bad things to people. The story has a fun approach to bullying and the prevention or standing up for your friends. While many people would not interact with a crocodile, they probably have some interaction with someone that is really mean.

I like the simple line drawings too. The simple colors added some illustrations to each page. The pictures also at times include motion, which is different than most books. A fun and silly read.

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The eponymous rotten reptile is gleefully unrepentant about his plan to have tasty children for lunch. This amusing tale reminds me of some of Kipling's Just So Stories, with its rhyme-y names, repeated phrases, and the entirely deserved comeuppance of a crocodile.

Sad story about a poor crocodile trying to find some food and the other animals viciously ganging up on him and killing him by burning him alive

The Enormous Crocodile has decided that today he wants a "nice juicy little child" for lunch and he will stop at nothing. Despite the pleading of Notsobig One, the crocodile, Humpy-Rumpy, the hippopotamus, Trunky, the elephant, Muggle-Wump, the monkey, and Roly-Poly, the bird, the Enormous

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Crocodile is determined to snack on a child. The Enormous Crocodile devices disguises, secret plans, and tricks to catch his prey, but the animals of the jungle are able to stop him from his evilness.
Roald Dahl has always been a favorite author of mine and I grew up reading his stories. This one in particular really captivates Dahl's creativity and imagination.

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My daughter chortled aloud at the end of this one, when the crocodile is finally punished by being thrown into the sun until he sizzles like a great sausage. Roald Dahl is great at not shirking the gory, dark side of kids and kids' humor, and this is a deliciously wicked villain.

Unfortunately, all

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the main active characters are gendered male (except one bird, which, unlike all the other animals, is ambiguously gendered "it"). The only female characters are the little girls, who like the little boys, are targets for the enormous hungry crocodile. The main flaw in the book.

Quentin Blake's illustrations are nicely ethnically diverse, although one does wonder where is this land in which the crocodiles roam free along with elephants and monkeys but the ethnically diverse children mostly have English names and English entertainments.

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Ok, but rather written to the Roald Dahl formula, 30 May 2015

This review is from: The Enormous Crocodile (Dahl Fiction) (Paperback)
I've read many Roald dahl books to my children - and latterly grandchild - but this was one I'd not encountered till recently.
Aimed at around 6 or 7 year olds, this is

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a short, well-illustrated read, telling the tale of the wicked, hungry crocodile, whose 'secret plans and clever tricks' relate to getting hold of a tasty meal:
'The sort of things that
I'm going to eat
Have fingers, toe-nails, arms
and legs and feet'

Plenty of Dahl-type language plus characters from his other books, who foil the crocodile's attempts to diguise himself as a seesaw etc and bag a nice juicy little child for dinner.
My grandson quite enjoyed it; made for an easy entertaining read. I can't say it massively grabbed me; found it a bit forgettable and very similar to Dahl's other work.

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The illustrations sold me on this one- I love the one of the crocodile pretending to be a coconut tree, but the whole book is adorable. I don't often read kids books at my lofty age, but I can't say I've read all of Dahl's books without reading the kids' books too, and this one was fantastic.

If you are looking for something to entertain the small ones in the car then this is it.
They are guaranteed to demand it be played again and again, journey after journey, until adults, at least, are sick of it.
We follow the enormous crocodile from the river to the jungle in his search for tasty

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morsels, small children, for lunch.

Stephen Fry's reading is superb.

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Dahl and Blake combine sublimely

Very creative story, wonderful illustrations...kids and adults with a sense of humor should enjoy!

silly story that is fun to read

The Enormous Crocodile is very, very hungry and has come up with some secret plans and clever tricks in order to eat his favourite meal - children. The other animals work to foil his nasty evil ways and keep the children safe.

A bizarre tale about a hungry crocodile who brags so much to the other

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animals that they see his secret plans and clever tricks coming from a mile away. After they spot his enormous figure of course. I can't say I really liked this story all that much but I did appreciate that the elephant was named Trunky - well that and that Trunky saves the day.) 2 stars for target audience. 1 for me.

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