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My Baby Crocodile

My Baby Crocodile

Klinger, Sarah
Dorémus, Gaëtan

Hardcover

AnimalsGeneral Juvenile Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1592701922
ISBN13: 9781592701926
Publisher: Enchanted Lion
Published: Apr 12 2016
Pages: 56
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.60 Depth: 12.30
Language: English

Klinger's translation is skillful, and the story has the scale and gravity of a novel. Is this love or détente? It's for readers to decide. -- Publishers Weekly


Told from two different perspectives, My Little Crocodile is a picture book about a chance meeting between an old crocodile and what he believes to be a baby crocodile. But the baby the old crocodile thinks he sees is rather a small boy wearing a knight's costume, and it's his helmet that deceives the croc's old eyes. By the time the error is corrected and the boy's true nature is revealed, the two characters have become close--close enough to play together well and to learn to eat each other's foods, or at least to taste them! This is an imaginative, poignant, gorgeously illustrated story of a lonely child who discovers both tenderness and profound complexity within his playmate, and within himself, of course, as well. Eventually, they part ways with a hug. Quite wonderfully, however, the young knight continues to carry the old crocodile within himself as he grows up, as the story's end reveals.

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