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Crocodile book cover, 1927 "Crocodile" (Russian: Крокодил) is a 1916-1917 fairy tale poem for children by Korney Chukovsky about a crocodile strolling along the streets of Petrograd (the contemporary name of St. Petersburg, Russia). It quickly became very popular, due to its utter nonsense, previously unseen in print, and skillful ...
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile is a children's book written by Bernard Waber first published in 1965. [ 1 ] : 2 It is the sequel to The House on East 88th Street , published in 1962. The book is the second in the Lyle the Crocodile series, which follows the life of Lyle, a city-dwelling crocodile who lives in a Victorian brownstone with the Primms family.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Solomon Crocodile is a 2011 picture book by Catherine Rayner. ... 2012 Scottish Children's Book Award ...
The Enormous Crocodile (first published on 1st November 1978) is a British children's story, written by British author Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.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.
Fables is a children's picture book written and illustrated by American author Arnold Lobel. Released by Harper & Row in 1980, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1981. [1] For each of the twenty fables, Lobel's text occupies one page, with his color illustration on the facing page.
The House on East 88th Street is a children's book written by Bernard Waber first published in 1962. [1] The book is the first in the Lyle the Crocodile series. The story is about a family named the Primms who move into an old Victorian brownstone in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, only to find a performing crocodile named Lyle living in the ...
His Lyle series, started in 1962, was his most well-known set of children's books. In the books, Lyle is a city-dwelling crocodile that lives in a bathtub. Lyle's character brings joy to everyone he meets. In 1954, Waber wrote his first illustrated book My Egg, Your Egg! by Eleanor Estes, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons.
Crocodile "on the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo river" Just So Stories: Kipling, Rudyard: 1902 The crocodile pulls the nose of the Elephant's Child, stretching it into a trunk. [4] The eponymous crocodile The Enormous Crocodile: Dahl, Roald: 1978 The crocodile wanders the jungle planning to eat children, but is foiled by other ...