The crocodile zooms past the Moon, past all the other planets, and finally past the many twinkling stars. 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.

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It encourages people of all shapes and sizes (represented as children, hippos, elephants, monkeys etc. 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. 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.

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. Once Trunky is standing beside the table with the bunch of coloured flowers on top of it, he crossly picks the big crocodile himself up by his tail using his trunk before telling him that he, Roly-Poly Bird, Humpy-Rumpy and Muggle-Wump have "all had quite enough of (his) clever tricks". But the other animals have had enough of his cunning tricks, so they scheme to get the better of this foul fiend, once and for all! The accompanying audiobook of The Enormous Crocodile is narrated alternately on the audio cassette and compact disc by Roger Blake and Stephen Fry.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.

Muggle-Wump the monkey also appears in The Twits in which he is accompanied by a whole family of Muggle-Wumps. Dahl gifted readers some of literature’s most abiding and wonderful characters, from the lovable dream-whispering, word-mangling giant, the BFG, to magical Matilda, chocolate-maker extraordinaire Willy Wonka and many more. 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. A monkey which looks like Blake's illustration of exactly the same character also appears in The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me. His books continue to be bestsellers after his death in 1990, and total sales are now over 100 million worldwide!The dizzy enormous crocodile flies diagonally through Earth's stratosphere, and through the Universe. The story was adapted into a 1990 TV special by Abbey Home Entertainment and Tempo Video and distributed by Abbey Broadcast Communications. The Enormous Crocodile (first published on 1 November 1978) is a British children's story, written by British author Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.