The Enormous Crocodile: Roald Dahl

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Words spoken by the crocodile in the book, "I'm going to fill my hungry empty tummy with something yummy yummy yummy yummy! The four jungle animals are all feeling horrified and disgusted with the big crocodile, thereby insulting him on the spot, hoping that he will fail miserably and will himself be killed permanently, after which the reptile himself briefly and unsuccessfully attacks first Muggle-Wump the Monkey in his tree (filled with nuts) and Roly Poly Bird himself in his (newly-built) nest. This foul fiend – the greediest croc in the whole river – wants to eat something juicy and delicious. His books continue to be bestsellers after his death in 1990, and total sales are now over 100 million worldwide!

The bigger crocodile leaves the big, deep, muddy river anyway, and announces his intention to first visit Humpy-Rumpy the hippopotamus on the river bank, then Trunky the elephant in the jungle, then Muggle Wump the monkey, and finally Roly-Poly Bird in his orange tree. Listen to THE ENORMOUS CROCODILE and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices- plus added squelchy sound effects! It’s always a favourite to read to my Grade 1 students at the start of the year and introduce them into the world of Roald Dahl! Part of the collectable Roald Dahl hardback set, published jointly by Puffin Books and Jonathan Cape.Later on, the big crocodile creeps over to a busy funfair where he eventually sees a "big roundabout", operated only by a human man who he does not at all know.

The story was adapted into a 1990 TV special by Abbey Home Entertainment and Tempo Video and distributed by Abbey Broadcast Communications. The text in this edition of The Enormous Crocodile was updated in 2022 for young independent readers. A monkey which looks like Blake's illustration of exactly the same character also appears in The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me.The accompanying audiobook of The Enormous Crocodile is narrated alternately on the audio cassette and compact disc by Roger Blake and Stephen Fry. Then, Trunky swings the big crocodile around in the air by his tail, slowly at first, then a bit faster, then a lot faster, and finally very fast, before eventually throwing him into the sky with his trunk. First of all, the big crocodile walks over to a coconut tree forest, not far away from an African town, where he cleverly disguises himself as a small coconut tree using several fallen tree branches as well as several fallen coconuts, hoping to eat Toto and Mary, a brother and a sister who happen to live in the town itself, but he is annoyingly caught by Humpy-Rumpy the Hippopotamus from the muddy river bank, who catches the big crocodile with his big head, and sends him "tumbling and skidding over the ground".

With a chance to save the day, Trunky the Elephant marches through the jungle into the Picnic Place. He was also the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. From exactly the same table, the (now very hungry) crocodile sneakily takes away one of the place's long benches and hides the long bench itself in one of the many clumps of bushes in the area before disguising himself as a wooden four-legged bench using all four of his stiff legs, hoping to eat four children, ("two boys and two girls") who are all going out "on a picnic together", but is annoyingly discovered by Trunky the Elephant. The enormous crocodile sets out to eat a child for lunch only to have his plot foiled by the other animals in the jungle. The Roly-Poly Bird makes a surprising appearance in The Twits and he can also be seen in Dirty Beasts.This foul fiend - the greediest croc in the whole river - wants to eat something juicy and delicious. From his iconic illustrations of The BFG and Matilda to Mr Stink with birds and beasts of all shapes and sizes along the way, Roald Dahl’s favourite illustrator Quentin Blake has been making us smile for more than half a century. Some of his better-known works include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox, Matilda, The Witches, and The BFG. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The Enormous Crocodile is a horrid greedy grumptious brute who loves to guzzle up little boys and girls.