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A delightful audiobook narrated by the one and only Stephen Fry!!

Read it to my five-year-old granddaughter yesterday to introduce her to the marvelous world of Roald Dahl. The story has animals, adventure, and then what children like most, the bad guy gets beaten.

Storyvision Studios UK's rather entertaining rendition of Roald Dahl's classic about a crocodile with murderous intentions (catching and guzzling up little children - gotta love our Mr Dahl's gallow humour)

Today's school ride was quiet...
No "count the red cars" game.
No "I spy with my little eye"...

I loved it.
Kiddo was riveted by the gruesome MC's "foul and filthy fiend"-ish-ness, hence the lack of our usual morning nattering.
We enjoyed the various characters with their unconventional names and their unconventional ways: Humpy-Rumpy, Trunky and the Notsobig One.

The narrator nicely captures the drollness and wit that is unique to RD's works.
The wordplay and colourful, albeit morbid adjectives, make for a fascinating world, indeed.

The drive to school seemed shorter than usual; way before the book ended and I was VERY tempted to let the audio play on after the drop off.

NB:
The Stephen Fry edition is, of course, even better. We have the CD and its brilliant!
NO idea Muggle-Wump the monkey appears in The Twits as well!

I read most of Dahl's books for kids when I was the right age for them and loved them. I was sure I had never read this one and I was excited to find it, since I'm impatient to share the ones I've read with my son. He's only 4 though.

The illustrations are wonderful, very bright and very dynamic. The story is quite long, but it's full of wonderful repetition that toddlers and young readers love. Different characters get to say the basically the same things, so I got to practice different character voices. Fun!

The Enormous Crocodile loves to eat juicy children and shares his plans to get himself some with various animals along his way toward the village saying he has "secret plans and clever tricks" in order to accomplish his goal. But the animals all thing he's horrible and vile and they foil his plans at every turn.

My son liked the villain (the Enormous Crocodile) the best though, so he was a little upset at the ending in which the Croc gets "taken care of". Otherwise he adored it and has wanted to read it over and over again.

First read 2014

I had great fun reading this book to my little girl. There are so many characters to make up funny voices for.
It's the first picture novel I have ever read to her - up until now it's been much shorter picture books so I wasn't sure whether she would have the stamina to listen to the whole thing in one sitting but she did.
The text is very funny and in classic Roald Dahl style. Very entertaining.

I know RD had some unfortunate views, but his childrens books were wonderful.

I read this book to all of mine and they loved it. The sense of peril was palpable, but of course croc gets his just deserts in the end

Dahl's tales always have that naughty-child's-dream-come-true mood on. A quick story read by author himself. I always wonder how much his books would affect me, if I read those when I was a child.

Cute little story warning against bragging and being nasty. Good people help. Interesting story for today's times.

My four year old loved it! Especially the bits where the croc is going to eat and munch all those sweet juicy children. :) NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM.

I think this is just one of those things natural to all children who already feel like prey with all these nasty adults hanging around. All of them want to eat you in a child's eyes. It's only natural because they see the adults getting eaten by jobs and spouses and the death of their dreams, so why not just imagine getting eaten by crocodiles, too? It's NATURAL!

That being said, this croc plays lots of nasty and cruel tricks in order to fill his belly, but fortunately, he happens to piss off most of the jungle creatures on his way to his playground meal ticket.

Alas! Poor stupid croc! And because this is A dahl tale, it gets really weird. :) Let's alter reality and turn it into an urban fantasy that winds up as a space opera, shall we? Right-On!

I love BBQ.

So does my daughter, it seems!

'The Enormous Crocodile' (1978) - classic but perhaps lesser known book by Roald Dahl, with the customary brilliant illustrations by Quentin Blake.

Whilst perhaps not up there with Dahl at his absolute best ('Charlie and The Chocolate Factory' 'Matilda' etc.) nevertheless 'The Enormous Crocodile' is a great story, loads of fun and absolutely not to be missed.

I’ve been a fan of Dahl ever since I first read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; reading these two short books confirmed my fandom. Funny in a sly way, almost as if Dahl hopes his rudeness toward adults will elude them.