I don’t know what it says about my kid that his favorite character is the crocodile that continually schemes to eat children …

(I hesitate to “count” this on Goodreads because it’s so short, but I want to keep a record of non story book read alouds for each of my children, so here it goes!)

Another one of my Dahl collection. Read this to both boys and they were in love. Téo has already had me read it again and both boys acted out the Enormous Crocodile and his clever tricks immediately following the book. Hilarious.

A little disconcerting to read out loud the crocodile dying at the end to a 2 and 6 year old. Dahl certainly his dark streak.

The Enormous Crocodile is not a nice fellow as he has a nasty plan up his sleeve, and will NOT let any other animal in his way to stop him from gobbling up a nice, juicy fat child. Roald Dahl, with the help of Quentin Blake, transports the reader to the depths of the jungle, using a brilliant choice of words, illustrations and quirky characters which allows you to be entranced in this story. This book is great to be read to children or quietly to yourself, and can teach young readers the importance of descriptive writing as well as alternative words-something which is important for young budding writers.