The story talks about a very large, scary and selfish crocodile that is very territorial over their river. At first the animals think that if they leave the alligator alone, he will stay in pain, and they feel free to use the river again but then the animals feel sorry for the alligator and help him feel better.

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A selfish crocodile banishes all the other creatures away from the river and he claims that it's all his. The story also breaks stereotypes because the mouse is portrayed as brave, this can help children with identity. Soon after, the crocodile and the mouse become friends and the crocodile invites everyone else to drink and bathe in the river.Then when the crocodile needed help, no animals stepped in to help except for a mouse who pulled a tooth out of its mouth. Bloomsbury Children's Books are also publishing his first poetry collection in October 1998, establishing Faustin as a Bloomsbury author across the board. He thanks the mouse and they become friends, soon the crocodile started to invite the rest of the animals back to the river. Astoundingly bright, bold illustrations bring to life all the wonderful creatures of the forest in a rainbow of colours.

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From that day on, the crocodile changed his ways, he welcomed all his new friends to join him in the river. However when the crocodile gets a terrible pain in his mouth, none of the animals go and help him as they are scared but the mouse goes inside his mouth and takes his bad tooth out. The pencil stokes can be seen in some of there illustrations which helps the reader to feel the emotion. book about a crocodile who did not want to share the river with any of the other animals, but when he got a tooth ache, no one would help him because he was mean. The crocodile realised how mean he was being to all the animals and felt bad so he decided to become friends with all the animals.

A mouse came to the rescue and pulled his bad tooth and the crocodile told him he was very grateful for him. Every morning a very large and very snappy crocodile shouts this selfish message: `Stay away from my river! The "climate of the heart", which West Indians know of but cannot always communicate, speaks clearly and delicately in his work. Faustin Charles' work seems to me outstandingly successful in capturing certain essentially West Indian qualities - the mixture of European and African cultures, of the bizarre and the beautiful, the grotesque and the sinister.