This book appears to be aimed at a slightly younger age group than his other bestselling stories. It’s fairly short at sixty pages and the story arc is rather simplistic. The Enormous Crocodile is a ‘wicked beastly beast’ with an appetite for small children. He travels through the jungle to look for his prey and meets an array of colourful creatures.
I think that this would be a great book for introducing adjectives early on in key stage two. All of the animal characters really come to life due to Dahl’s vivid descriptions and the repetitive story structure would help to retain the adjectives in the child’s mind.
Quentin Blake’s illustrations of the crocodile in various states of disguise are particularly beguiling and the menacing nature of the story should ensure an enraptured audience.

The Enormous Crocodile is a book written by Roald Dahl. Basically, in this book, the author tells about a very greedy crocodile who plans to eat little children. The other animals of the jungle warn him that he was doing a very wrong deed but he didn't listen to them. He started making plans for eating the children but every time the other animals of the jungle fail his plan. At last, Trunky, the elephant throws the enormous crocodile with immense power that he crashes into the sun and dies which leads to the death of a very greedy creature on the earth.

همه چیزایی که یک کتاب کودک لازم داره اینجا جمع شده .
داستانهای کوتاه که حوصله رو سر نمیبره ، طنز و شوخی، نقاشی‌های خیلی قشنگ و رنگی جذاب که موقع خوندن یا شنیدن کمک میکنه بچه تصویر ذهنی بسازه، و کلی پیام اخلاقی غیر مستقیم. تازه آخر همه داستانها خوشه، همون چیزی که کودک بهش احتیاج داره (و این روزها یک بزرگسال)
باید همه کتابهای رولد دال رو بخرم. حیفه ندارمشون.

Een amusante! Heerlijk creatief, die streken van die krokodil.
Met goed gebruikte herhaling en stukjes in rijm.
En op een kwartier te lezen.
Het einde was voor mij (volwassene) nogal kort, maar ik kan me voorstellen dat dit perfect en hilarisch wordt gevonden door de echte doelgroep (kinderen).
Blijkbaar het allereerste Roald Dahl-boek met illustraties van Quentin Blake. Het viel me al op dat ze hier toch licht anders zijn dan ik ze gewoon ben: netter afgelijnd én volledig in kleur. Deze stijl vind ik eigenlijk nog mooier. In de Nederlandstalige versie uitgegeven door De Fontein staan ze wel vaak op de verkeerde bladzijde, vóór de paragraaf, wat nogal spoilers geeft.

One of my all time favorite children's authors. I love Roald Dahl and I loved this book. It, along with his other books, turned my reluctant third grade read into an avid reader.

ولی واقعا نقشه‌های تمساحه زیرکانه بود فقط به شرطی که برای همه تعریف نمیکرد هدفش چیه تا کارش رو خراب کنند :))
اما اینکه شر تو داستا�� موفق نشد و خوبی پیروز شد برای بچه ها شنیدنش قشنگ و لازمه

I've read much cleverer stories from Dahl, and this one was kind of flat, hence the two stars.

The Enormous Croc is not as smart as he thinks he is. He has all kinds of clever plans to catch a juicy child or two for his lunch. But on his way to the town, he's stupid enough to tell every creature he meets where he is going and why. So when he tries all his ruses to fool the children, Humpy-Rumpy the Hippo and Trunky the Elephant and Muggle-Wump the Monkey and the Roly-Poly Bird rush to the rescue and foil his plans before he can snatch any kids. Finally, Trunky winds him up and sends him rocketing off into space, where he crashes into the sun and gets sizzled up like a sausage. Sssssssssssss. No more Enormous Crocodile. Boo hoo.

Normally I don't care much for Quentin Blake's illustrations, but the ones in this book are in color and add a lot of fun to the story.

Roald Dahl’s bonkers and brilliant tale is a funny quirky tale for kids. It’s also beautifully illustrated by longtime collaborator Quentin Blake.

This big crocodile is hungry for some children and has the perfect plan to get them - or does he? He makes several other jungle animals very angry with him and they attempt to thwart his child-eating ways.

This just goes to show, if you are planning something evil, do n  notn monologue!

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The enormous crocodile is one of the finest works of Roald Dalh. This book has been written flawlessly by him.It is a humorous book about a hungry crocodile who adores eating juicy little children.The Enormous Crocodile has a galloping appetite, and he’s on the search for his favorite meal: juicy children. He develops a series of ‘secret plans and clever tricks’ to deceive the children so he can snatch them up.
His this plan of action creates the whole adventure in the story.For this, the enormous crocodile chooses different location to satisfy his hunger. Firstly, he heads towards a coconut tree on a deserted town.
Then, he moves to the children playground located outside the old school. Then, the crocodile heads to a noisy funfair.Finally, the crocodile heads to a quiet picnic area in a forest just outside the town. However, the climax comes when the crocodile is exposed by Trunky.Seeing his clever tricks, Trunky picks up the crocodile by his tail to teach him a lesson.The end is humorous as the crocodile is thrown away so intensely that he moves out of the space.The Enormous Crocodile is in the style of a picture book in contrast to Roald Dahl's other story books.The plot of the story has been kept at the biggest, browniest muddiest river in Africa,

داستان بسیار ساده و روان نوشته شده است و استفاده از جمله‌های ساده واژگان کودکانه و قلم (فونت) درشت، خواندنش را برای کودکان آسان و لذت‌بخش می‌کند. خلاقیت به‌کاررفته، بسیار به تخیل کودکان نزدیک است و بارها در طول داستان کودک را هیجان‌زده می‌کند. نقش کودکان در داستان، باعث هم‌ذات‌پنداری می‌شود و به کودک کمک می‌کند که راحت‌تر با داستان ارتباط برقرار کند و تأثیر تعلیق‌ها را بهبود می‌بخشد.ـ
تصویرهای ساده اما رنگی و زیبا، بر جذابیت کتاب می‌افزایند و درک داستان را برای کودکان راحت‌تر می‌کند.ـ