In the biggest brownest muddiest river in Africa (the author skipped commas there), “ The Enormous Crocodile” tells every animal he sees that he planned to eat children for lunch. His bragging was fortunate, for they all could warn children about every crazy camouflage disguise! The crocodiles use words like ‘tough’, ‘chewy’, ‘nasty’, ‘bitter’, ‘juicy’ and ‘yummy’ to describe how children taste. Can you think of other words to describe different tastes? Quentin Blake has been drawing ever since he can remember. He taught illustration for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, of which he is an honorary professor. He has won many prizes, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and in 1999 he was appointed the first Children’s Laureate. In the 2013 New Year’s Honours List he was knighted for services to illustration. A fun story that follows along the lines of little red riding hood and the three little pigs, you are told his plan, attempts to go through with it and ends up being beaten in the end. The audiobook of The Enormous Crocodile is narrated alternately on the audio cassette and compact disc by Roger Blake and Stephen Fry. The story was adapted into a 1997 TV special by Abbey Home Entertainment.

The Enormous Crocodile is a 1978 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 is about a hungry crocodile who aims to eat children via using various, not-quite-impenetrable disguises. [1] This new musical version of Roald Dahl’s snappy picture book, about a large hungry crocodile searching for a child to devour, puts global contemporary music and puppetry at the heart of the production. I’ve warned my publishers that if they later on so much as change a single comma in one of my books, they will never see another word from me. Never! Ever!” he said.A new musical for young audiences of The Enormous Crocodile, co-produced with Leeds Playhouse and Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. My four year old loved it! Especially the bits where the croc is going to eat and munch all those sweet juicy children. :) NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM. Here at the Roald Dahl Story Company, we are thrilled to announce three exciting new theatre productions: Alas! Poor stupid croc! And because this is A dahl tale, it gets really weird. :) Let's alter reality and turn it into an urban fantasy that winds up as a space opera, shall we? Right-On!

Do some research to find out more about crocodiles and where they live. Could you make a report about them? Dahl is a wonderful storyteller, even if the tales can sometimes flirt with the edge of the macabre. He utilises some of the wonderful things that children know about their surroundings and injects just enough 'spook' to keep children guessing. Will the child be saved or has the Enormous Crocodile found a way to win again? Delightfully simple with a quiver full of laughable moments, Roald Dahl level of writing is surely missed in modern children's storytelling. The Roly-Poly Bird makes a surprising appearance in The Twits and he can also be seen in Dirty Beasts.Roald Dahl’s The Magic Finger will be presented in a new theatrical reading for online release. Created in co-production with the Unicorn Theatre, the UK's leading theatre for young audiences, this imaginative reading of Roald Dahl’s mischievous story will be directed by Milli Bhatia (Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner, Royal Court) and designed by Shankho Chaudhuri (Alice in Wonderland, Brixton House). Beware! He's looking for someone to feast upon... someone who looks a lot like YOU! Read more Details

Currently in development, the theatre division is also concocting a large-scale circus spectacle, that brings together beloved characters from the most popular Roald Dahl stories for the first time. This brand-new show is being cooked up by a stellar creative team including Olivier Award-winning director Polly Findlay, masters of circus spectacle Cirque Bijou and Stephen Long& Iain Sharkey - the minds behind many of Derren Brown’s TV and stage illusions. Roald Dahl was incredibly prolific in the 1970s, and we seem to keep discovering more outlandish and unknown stories of his from that time period that are satisfying both my reading project and my daughter's sense of humor.

The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre is an independent charity, founded in 2001 by Roald Dahl’s widow, Liccy. Their founding objective as a charity is to further the education of the public in the art of literature and creativity, by running a museum and literature centre based on the works of Roald Dahl. The Gregg family spend every Saturday morning out in the woods searching for animals and birds to hunt. But the girl next door cannot stand hunting, and she’s so angry about it she’s going to set the magic finger on them all. One thing is for certain, very strange and spectacular things are about to begin.... The weekend followed the publication of Dahl’s now-classic Revolting Rhymes, and Joule recalled that he and Bacon were presented with copies. The Enormous Crocodile' (1978) - classic but perhaps lesser known book by Roald Dahl, with the customary brilliant illustrations by Quentin Blake.

Salman Rushdie, the Booker prize-winning novelist, is among many who have condemned such censorship as “absurd”, while Puffin has been reportedly inundated with complaints from the public.Look on Google Earth or another mapping tool to try and find the ‘biggest brownest muddiest river in Africa’. Bring the magic of Roald Dahl stories to life in your classroom with our YPO-sponsored lesson plans, spanning the full curriculum! I had heard of the zany film, “Charlie And The Chocolate Factor”. It came out in 1971, before I was born. I caught it on satellite dish recently, in my 40s. Afterwards, I could laugh at Howard Wolowitz’s “Oompa-Loompa” joke on “The Big Bang Theory”! I discovered at Goodreads several years ago, that this is a novel by Roald Dahl. I learned that he is Welsh, whimsical, beloved, and in Heaven since 1990. One of Roald Dahl’s best-known characters was the Enormous Crocodile, “a horrid greedy grumptious brute” who “wants to eat something juicy and delicious”. The above video may be from a third-party source. We accept no responsibility for any videos from third-party sources. Please let us know if the video is no longer working.