The Enormous Crocodile: Roald Dahl

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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. With a chance to save the day, Trunky the Elephant marches through the jungle into the Picnic Place. The enormous crocodile sets out to eat a child for lunch only to have his plot foiled by the other animals in the jungle.

Quentin Blake has illustrated more than three hundred books and was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. Listen to THE ENORMOUS CROCODILE and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices- plus added squelchy sound effects! This foul fiend – the greediest croc in the whole river – wants to eat something juicy and delicious. Part of the collectable Roald Dahl hardback set, published jointly by Puffin Books and Jonathan Cape.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". 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.

Endlessly inventive and laugh-out- loud funny, Dahl’s stories reinvent the world for every new generation.

But the other animals have had enough of his cunning tricks, so they scheme to get the better of this foul fiend, once and for all! 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. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Grinning, the big crocodile responds: "I'm going to fill my hungry empty tummy with something yummy yummy yummy yummy! His books continue to be bestsellers after his death in 1990, and total sales are now over 100 million worldwide!Muggle-Wump the monkey also appears in The Twits in which he is accompanied by a whole family of Muggle-Wumps. The Enormous Crocodile is in the style of a picture book in contrast to Roald Dahl's other story books, illustrated by Quentin Blake. In 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted for services to illustration.