The cunning plans get the young readers really involved and engaged with the story. The Enormous Crocodile comes up with some great plans to capture his prey, even posing as a coconut tree for the children to climb. A very hungry crocodile who is plotting and planning to catch and eat innocent and unaware children for his lunch, he so big and greedy that he wants at least three! But, as we all know, greed is never good, and the other good and kind jungle animals join forces to stop him. Overall, The Enormous Crocodile is a dark and delicious tale about a nasty, greedy crocodile. They are not impressed with his plans and his greed, so he even threatens to eat the smaller animals like Muggle-Wump, the monkey.īut can the other animals stop the enormous crocodile, or will he obtain the adorable snack he desires? The other jungle animals have some other ideas though and plan to thwart his attempts and put an end to his greediness.Ĭrocodile is so sure that he will be able to sneak up on the children and snaffle himself a tasty snack that he wanders around the jungle telling all the animals he meets what he is up to “I’m going to fill my hungry empty tummy with something yummy, yummy, yummy!” everybody from Humpy-Rumpy, the hippopotamus, to The Roly-Poly Bird. As he thinks he the bravest animal in the land, it shouldn’t be a problem. But children are hard to come by, so The Enormous Crocodile comes up with a cunning and secret plan involving some tricks to get the very special snacks that he craves.

But what is so tasty that the Enormous Crocodile will do anything to get it? Children, yes small human children. He has a favourite snack, and he has a desire to eat it. But The Enormous Crocodile is much bigger and he is hungry. “I’M GOING TO FILL MY HUNGRY EMPTY TUMMY WITH SOMETHING YUMMY, YUMMY, YUMMY!” The Enormous Crocodile – Roald DahlĪnybody that has seen a crocodile knows that they are big.

This isn’t a chapter book but just one long tale. In 1978 he published his eighth children’s book this was called The Enormous Crocodile. His books are still read and enjoyed by children all around the world today. Dahl wrote a number of children’s books, books for adults, poetry books and even the screenplay for the James Bond film You Only Live Twice. Books for children should be bright and colourful featuring tales of fluffy happiness and wonder, shouldn’t they? I don’t think anybody explained that to one of the world’s best storytellers Roald Dahl.

The crocodile by roald dahl