Later on, the big crocodile walks to a children's playground located outside an old school. The four jungle animals are all feeling horrified and disgusted with the big crocodile, thereby insulting him on the spot, hoping that he will fail miserably and will himself be killed permanently, after which the reptile himself briefly and unsuccessfully attacks first Muggle-Wump the Monkey in his tree (filled with nuts) and Roly Poly Bird himself in his (newly-built) nest.įirst of all, the big crocodile walks over to a quiet forest, not far away from an empty African town, where he disguises himself as a small coconut tree using several fallen tree branches as well as coconuts, hoping to eat Toto and Mary, a brother and a sister from the town itself, but is annoyingly caught by Humpy-Rumpy the Hippopotamus from the muddy river bank, who catches the crocodile with his giant head and sends him 'tumbling and skidding over the ground'.

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 the Roly-Poly Bird in an orange tree. The small crocodile objects, because real children taste 'tough and chewy and nasty and bitter' in his opinion compared to real fish, and because of what happened the very last time the big crocodile ever tried to eat real children. The story begins in Africa in a big, deep, muddy river, where the big crocodile (the title character) is telling a slightly smaller crocodile, called the 'not-so-big one', that he wants to leave his dirty home and eat some real children for his lunch. The story was adapted into a 1997 TV special. The Enormous Crocodile is the title character in a British 1978 children's story, written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake, audio narrated alternately on the audio cassette and compact disc releases by Roger Blake and Stephen Fry.

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