The Enormous Crocodile: Roald Dahl

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With a chance to save the day, Trunky the Elephant marches through the jungle into the Picnic Place. It's impossible now to think of Roald Dahl's writings without imagining Quentin Blake's illustrations.

They are rightly ranked among the greatest classics of children’s fiction, stories that celebrate kindness, bravery and hope. 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.When nobody is looking, however, the crocodile picks up a bunch of beautiful coloured flowers with his front legs, and then he arranges it on top of one of the tables in the area. 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. This foul fiend - the greediest croc in the whole river - wants to eat something juicy and delicious. It encourages people of all shapes and sizes (represented as children, hippos, elephants, monkeys etc.

Endlessly inventive and laugh-out- loud funny, Dahl’s stories reinvent the world for every new generation. 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.

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Grinning, the big crocodile responds: "I'm going to fill my hungry empty tummy with something yummy yummy yummy yummy! Refusing to give up on his seemingly impossible task, the big crocodile finally goes to "the picnic place" located in a tropical woodland just outside the town which has trees and bushes all around it. 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. A picture book written for younger readers than Dahl's other works, the story tells of a hungry crocodile who aims to eat human children via using various, not-quite-impenetrable disguises.The Roly-Poly Bird makes a surprising appearance in The Twits and he can also be seen in Dirty Beasts. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.