The Enormous Crocodile: Roald Dahl

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Dahl gifted readers some of literature’s most abiding and wonderful characters, from the lovable dream-whispering, word-mangling giant, the BFG, to magical Matilda, chocolate-maker extraordinaire Willy Wonka and many more. With a chance to save the day, Trunky the Elephant marches through the jungle into the Picnic Place. Using only an abandoned tree branch, (referred to as "a large piece of wood"), the cheeky crocodile disguises himself as a "see-saw", hoping to eat an entire class of children who want to ride on what they think is the "new see-saw" itself, but, despite the school children's teacher telling the children themselves that it is "a rather knobbly sort of a see-saw", he is just disturbed on the spot by Muggle-Wump the Monkey, who tells the whole class of children to "run, run, run" and that the big crocodile is not really a real see-saw and that he just wants to eat them up. The story ends as, "with the most tremendous bang", the flying Enormous Crocodile crashes headfirst into the "hot hot Sun" in the middle of the Solar System, where he becomes "sizzled up like a sausage" right after impact, killing him "once and for all".

He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. The Enormous Crocodile is in the style of a picture book in contrast to Roald Dahl's other story books, illustrated by Quentin Blake. His books continue to be bestsellers after his death in 1990, and total sales are now over 100 million worldwide! They are rightly ranked among the greatest classics of children’s fiction, stories that celebrate kindness, bravery and hope. To find out what personal information we collect and how we use it, please visit our privacy policy.The Enormous Crocodile is a horrid greedy grumptious brute who loves to guzzle up little boys and girls.

The Roly-Poly Bird makes a surprising appearance in The Twits and he can also be seen in Dirty Beasts. 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. The accompanying audiobook of The Enormous Crocodile is narrated alternately on the audio cassette and compact disc by Roger Blake and Stephen Fry. A picture book written for younger readers than Dahl's other works, the story tells of a hungry crocodile who aims to eat human children via using various, not-quite-impenetrable disguises.Some of his better-known works include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox, Matilda, The Witches, and The BFG. 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. First of all, the big crocodile walks over to a coconut tree forest, not far away from an African town, where he cleverly disguises himself as a small coconut tree using several fallen tree branches as well as several fallen coconuts, hoping to eat Toto and Mary, a brother and a sister who happen to live in the town itself, but he is annoyingly caught by Humpy-Rumpy the Hippopotamus from the muddy river bank, who catches the big crocodile with his big head, and sends him "tumbling and skidding over the ground".

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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. It's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations. Words spoken by the crocodile in the book, "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! Once Trunky is standing beside the table with the bunch of coloured flowers on top of it, he crossly picks the big crocodile himself up by his tail using his trunk before telling him that he, Roly-Poly Bird, Humpy-Rumpy and Muggle-Wump have "all had quite enough of (his) clever tricks".