The Enormous Crocodile: Roald Dahl

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It's the beginning of the year and somehow I find this the right time for some of Roald Dahl's stories. Also, I have quite some catching up to do since I missed out on them when I was a child. A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. A recipe outlining how to make your own edible Enormous Crocodile appears in Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes.

I did a second reading with my soon to be six year old. We stopped as the crocodile was making his way to the village where he hoped to eat several children. Look on Google Earth or another mapping tool to try and find the ‘biggest brownest muddiest river in Africa’. Find out how long a crocodile is. How long might the Enormous Crocodile have been? Could you measure this distance? The story begins in Africa in a large, deep, muddy river, where the enormous crocodile (the title character) is telling a smaller crocodile, known as the Not-So-Big One, that he wants to eat children for his lunch. The illustrations show how close the children come to being the croc’s meal over and over again. Just a mite scary but most children will find it delightful.

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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] Later on, the big crocodile walks to a children's playground located outside an old school. 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.

Here at the Roald Dahl Story Company, we are thrilled to announce three exciting new theatre productions: Look at photographs of crocodiles and use these to draw your own pictures of them (see Resources below). We couldn’t be more excited to be able to reveal these new productions, which demonstrate our ambitions in making new work. Far beyond simply ‘putting the book on stage’, we want to create original pieces of theatre, which both capture the timeless appeal, characters and spirit of Roald Dahl stories and speak powerfully to today’s audiences. From puppetry to musicals, free digital productions to large-scale events we’re working across theatrical forms and collaborating with extraordinary artists and producers to create shows that will illuminate the original stories in a new way, inspiring the next generation of theatregoers.”

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. Think of synonyms / antonyms for the word ‘Enormous’. How might the story have been different if the title had used one of your antonyms, e.g. the Tiny Crocodile?

The productions have been created and developed by the Roald Dahl Story Company’s in-house theatre division. Led by Artistic Director Jenny Worton and Executive Producer Anna Schmitz, the theatre division was set up in 2018 to create and produce innovative productions inspired by Roald Dahl stories in collaboration with world-class artists and leading theatre producers. Dahl, who died in 1990 aged 74, was one of the most successful children’s authors of all time. But his publisher, Puffin, caused controversy this month for hiring “sensitivity readers” to rewrite his books with hundreds of revisions so that they “can continue to be enjoyed by all today”.The story is the titular enormous crocodile who is a very nasty and evil croc that likes to eat children. The animal-lover in me doesn't like that very much because crocs, much like sharks, have far too bad a reputation which is why many are endangered. Nevertheless, this story is pretty old for one, and I think the main reason the author chose a crocodile was it's outer appearance (suitable for many disguises to get close to the unsuspecting children) anyway. Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. Make some warning posters to encourage people to look out for a nasty crocodile who is trying to eat small children!