Mangerei volentieri un bambino. Ediz. illustrata

It's cute, witty and, by virtue of adeptly mixing those two elements, very clever. Or it's crass, fear-inducing and inappropriate for children. What's the answer? That parents shouldn't conservatively assume children can't handle dark humor, but also that parents shouldn't liberally assume all childre Leggi tutto

Sometimes a book's title is too perfect. When I discovered this book on a shelf in a toy store in Seattle, I knew it would make a most amusing addition to the collection I keep in the principal's office. (Runner up that day: Monsters Eat Whiny Children. Oh, how I'd love to meet the store's buyer!) On Leggi tutto

This is one of those books that I liked when I read it silently to myself, but once I read it out loud to some students, I knew immediately that I love it, and that it's a book I'll be reading to kids for years to come.

De boodschap van dit boek (dat een kleine krokodil een kindje wil eten) ontging M. compleet, maar het was wel een leuke conversatie-starter. Met duidelijke afbeeldingen, zoals de grote krokodillen (mama en papa) en de kleine (M? Of zus W?), bananen, worstjes, tanden etc. Niet voor bange kinderen!

A young crocodile named Achilles decides one day that he would like to eat a child, rather than his customary bananas. Nothing his parents do - fetching a huge sausage from the village, baking a delicious chocolate cake - makes any difference. Then an unexpected encounter with a child sends Achilles Leggi tutto

Achilles is a baby crocodile with a dream. Instead of the bananas his mom and dad feed him for breakfast, he would prefer a child. In an attempt to convince his parents to stop feeding him bananas, little Achilles refuses to eat. The tears and bribes of Mama and Papa Crocodile do not convince Achil