The Enormous Crocodile: Roald Dahl

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Quentin Blake has illustrated more than three hundred books and was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. A recipe outlining how to make your own edible Enormous Crocodile appears in Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes. With a chance to save the day, Trunky the Elephant marches through the jungle into the Picnic Place. The bigger crocodile leaves the big, deep, muddy river anyway, and announces his intention to first visit Humpy-Rumpy the hippopotamus on the river bank, then Trunky the elephant in the jungle, then Muggle Wump the monkey, and finally Roly-Poly Bird in his orange tree. The small crocodile objects, because real children taste "tough and chewy and nasty and bitter" in his opinion compared to real fish, and because of what happened the very last time the large crocodile ever tried to eat real human children.

He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. Refusing to give up on his seemingly impossible task, the big crocodile finally goes to "the picnic place" located in a tropical woodland just outside the town which has trees and bushes all around it. Muggle-Wump the monkey also appears in The Twits in which he is accompanied by a whole family of Muggle-Wumps.Grinning, the big crocodile responds: "I'm going to fill my hungry empty tummy with something yummy yummy yummy yummy! Listen to THE ENORMOUS CROCODILE and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices- plus added squelchy sound effects!

From his iconic illustrations of The BFG and Matilda to Mr Stink with birds and beasts of all shapes and sizes along the way, Roald Dahl’s favourite illustrator Quentin Blake has been making us smile for more than half a century. It’s always a favourite to read to my Grade 1 students at the start of the year and introduce them into the world of Roald Dahl! His books continue to be bestsellers after his death in 1990, and total sales are now over 100 million worldwide! A monkey which looks like Blake's illustration of exactly the same character also appears in The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me.

Overall, if this book isn't in your children's library (or your own), I would suggest you purchase it, you won't be disappointed. The text in this edition of The Enormous Crocodile was updated in 2022 for young independent readers. From exactly the same table, the (now very hungry) crocodile sneakily takes away one of the place's long benches and hides the long bench itself in one of the many clumps of bushes in the area before disguising himself as a wooden four-legged bench using all four of his stiff legs, hoping to eat four children, ("two boys and two girls") who are all going out "on a picnic together", but is annoyingly discovered by Trunky the Elephant. The enormous crocodile sets out to eat a child for lunch only to have his plot foiled by the other animals in the jungle.