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The Enormous Crocodile

The Enormous Crocodile
The Enormous Crocodile first edition.jpg
First edition
Author Roald Dahl
Illustrator Quentin Blake
Cover artist Quentin Blake
Language English
Genre Picture book, children's, short story
Publisher Jonathan Cape (London)
Publication date
November 1, 1978
Media type Print (quarto hardback, paperback)
ISBN
OCLC 4620532
LC Class PZ7.D1515 En 1978

The Enormous Crocodile is a 1978 children's story by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake.

The story takes place in Africa where an enormous, greedy crocodile is telling a smaller crocodile that he is going to eat children for his lunch. The smaller crocodile objects, because children taste "nasty and bitter" in his opinion compared to fish, and because of what happened the last time the larger crocodile tried to eat children. The larger crocodile leaves the river anyway, and announces his intention to Humpy Rumpy the Hippopotamus, Trunky the Elephant, Muggle-Wump the Monkey and the Roly-Poly Bird. The other animals insult him and hope that he will fail and will himself be killed and eaten, after which the crocodile briefly and unsuccessfully attacks Muggle-Wump and the Roly-Poly Bird.

First of all, the crocodile heads into a coconut tree forest, not far from a town and disguises himself as a small coconut tree with branches and coconuts, hoping to eat 2 children, Toto and Mary, but is exposed by Humpy Rumpy.

Next, the crocodile heads to a children's playground outside an ancient school and disguises himself as a see-saw, with the aid of a piece of wood, hoping to eat a whole class of children, but is exposed by Muggle-Wump.

Then, the crocodile heads to a funfair and, when nobody is looking, he disguises himself as a wooden crocodile on a merry-go-round by sandwiching himself between a brown wooden lion and a fearsome yellow dragon, (with a red tongue sticking out of its mouth,) hoping to eat a young girl named Jill who wants to ride on him, but is exposed by the Roly-Poly Bird.


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