Product Description

Every morning a very large and very snappy crocodile shouts this selfish message: 'Stay away from my river! It's MY river! If you come in my river, I'll eat you all!' The animals in the forest don't know what to do. They are frightened of the crocodile. Even the fish, tadpoles, frogs, crabs and crayfish stay out of the water. Until one day, the creatures are woken by a loud groaning sound which turns out to be the selfish crocodile in a lot of pain, and the smallest of them all, a little mouse, finds a way to solve their snappy dilemma! Astoundingly bright, bold illustrations bring to life all the wonderful creatures of the forest in a rainbow of colours. The Author: Faustin Charles is a renowned poet and story-teller. His collection of Afro-Caribbean rhymes was published to great success by Puffin. This is his first picture book text. "Bloomsbury Children's Books" are also publishing his first poetry collection in October 1998, establishing Faustin as a Bloomsbury author across the board. Faustin spends much time in schools and libraries story-telling, and is also Library Buyer for Enfield. He lives in North London. The Illustrator: Mike Terry is most well-known for his wonderful cover illustrations for Dick King-Smith, including "The Hodgeheg" and "The Sheep-Pig" (the basis for the successful film "Babe"). This is his first picture book. Mike lives in Hythe, Kent.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32136 in Books
• Published on: 1999-04-23
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

Review
`A clever compassionate book ... The stunning illustrations help bring the story to life'
--Waterstone's Guide to Kid's Books, February 2009

Review
'Michael Terry's bold paintings are bursting with vigour and humour'

About the Author
Michael Terry's picture books for Bloomsbury include The Selfish Crocodile, Little Hotchpotch and Rhino's Horns. Michael is well-known for his characterful animal illustrations, in particular for the novels of Dick King-Smith where, amongst others, he created the cover for The Hodgeheg. Michael lives in Hythe, Kent.

Customer Reviews

GREAT BOOK
This is a excellent book, its funny and teaches a really good lesson to children, great pictures too, both my kids (3 and 2 ) love it.

Entertaining reading for toddlers
This book immediately became a firm favourite with my 30 month old toddler and is usually read at least once every day! The illustrations are colourful and fun. I can't imagine any toddler not enjoying this story.

Children will love it so much you will tire of reading it!
Not the best story this one- bit of a rip off of Roahd Dahl's the Enormous Crocodile in some respects. However, children love it and my own make me read it every bloomin' night!

The pictures are great and more then make up for the slightly boring story. I say it's boring, but my children disagree and absolutely love it. All in all, a little gem. Pop it on your kids xmas book list!