Frockodile

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The Enormous Crocodile is a 1978 children's story written by British author Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. A picture book written for younger readers than Dahl's other works, the story is about a hungry crocodile who aims to eat children via using various, not-quite-impenetrable disguises. [1]

The small crocodile objects, because children taste "nasty and bitter" in his opinion compared to fish, and because of what happened the last time the big crocodile tried to eat children. The larger crocodile leaves the big, brown muddy river anyway, and announces his intention to Humpy Rumpy the hippopotamus, Trunky the elephant, Muggle-Wump the monkey and the Roly-Poly Bird.

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The book is the second in the Lyle the Crocodile series, which follows the life of Lyle, a city-dwelling crocodile who lives in a Victorian brownstone with the Primms family. First of all, the crocodile heads to a coconut tree forest, not far away from a town and disguises himself as a small coconut tree with branches and coconuts, hoping to eat a pair of children, Toto and Mary, but is exposed by Humpy Rumpy. But when the hyenas laugh at Cliff, he pretends he's just dressing up for a play. Of course, no play exists– so what is he to do? Dahl is a wonderful storyteller, even if the tales can sometimes flirt with the edge of the macabre. He utilises some of the wonderful things that children know about their surroundings and injects just enough 'spook' to keep children guessing. Will the child be saved or has the Enormous Crocodile found a way to win again? Delightfully simple with a quiver full of laughable moments, Roald Dahl level of writing is surely missed in modern children's storytelling.

I liked how the author organized the text in this book. He didn't make it boring to read and he had the text go from left to right to up and down. I thought it was humorous when he said that the crocodile was deciding to eat all the O's so the author took out all of the O's in the text on that scene. It was very clever and a child would think that's very funny and would have a fun time reading it. Next, the crocodile heads to a children's playground located outside an ancient school building and disguises himself as a see-saw, with the help of a large piece wood, hoping to eat a whole class of children, but is exposed by Muggle-Wump. The Plot has Holes: One of my biggest things I did not like, was the gaping holes and shortcuts of the movie. Lyles journey has a lot of heart, and cuteness, but the movie takes major leaps in the timeline with the story which was glaringly obvious for me. I cringed at how fast things progressed, and how so many other character arcs were sort of smoothed over to fit another song into the mix. Don't get me wrong, your kids won't care and the movie is still fun, but there was more that could have been done to make the story much more integrated and natural to make the full tale come to life.Adoramos!! O Alfredo é um crocodilo que um dia encontra um lindo vestido vermelho, um colar e uns sapatos a combinar. O Alfredo inventa uma história de que está assim vestido porque está a ensaiar para uma peça de teatro…

some action! The author does a great job with the narrative text that speaks directly to the audience.

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I’m sure that summary doesn’t make much sense! This is an interactive book, which are almost always a hoot for older readers, and this one is very funny and entertaining. Even a younger reader like JJ can have some fun with it, shaking the book when prompted and playing with the cutouts. The length is just fine for a baby bookworm, and the illustrations were colorful and full of personality, which she loves. This is a fine book for baby bookworms, and an even better one for older readers, too! Baby Bookworm approved! I had heard of the zany film, “Charlie And The Chocolate Factor”. It came out in 1971, before I was born. I caught it on satellite dish recently, in my 40s. Afterwards, I could laugh at Howard Wolowitz’s “Oompa-Loompa” joke on “The Big Bang Theory”! I discovered at Goodreads several years ago, that this is a novel by Roald Dahl. I learned that he is Welsh, whimsical, beloved, and in Heaven since 1990.