You Can't Cuddle A Crocodile

by Diana Hendry, Ed Eaves (Illustrator)

Everyone knows that little sisters can be a handful. But this one is more - she's a zoo-ful! But her big brother just wishes she'd be a little girl now and again.

Genres: Childrens

32 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

Diana Hendry grew up by the sea and has worked as a journalist, English teacher and tutor in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol. Her poetry has won a number of awards including first prize in the 1996 Housman Society Competition. From 1997-1998 she was Writer in Residence at Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary. She lives in Edinburgh.

She has published more than thirty books for children, including Harvey Angell which won a Whitbread Award in 1991 and You Can't Kiss It Better, set in Edinburgh (2003). She also writes adult short stories, a number of which have been published in anthologies and read on Radio 4. Her collections of poetry for adults, Making Blue (1995) and Borderers (2001) are published by Peterloo, and Twelve Lilts: Psalms & Responses (2003) by Mariscat Press. With Tow Pow, in a series of poetic ‘challenges’ she has published Sparks! (2005, also Mariscat Press). A third full collection, Late love : and other whodunnits, was published in 2008. She has also published a collection of poems for children, No Homework Tomorrow (Glowworm, 2003)

Reviews

[Vinkkitonttu]

Yksinkertainen ja hauska tarina! Jokaisena päivänä sisko on aina jokin eri eläin, kunnes hän vihdoin ja viimein on ihan vain sisko...

Tämä naurattaa ja hauskuutta takuulla kaikki alle 7-vuotiaita. Sanoisin jopa, että tämä on lasten hyvän mielen kirja :)

[Lara Bate]

You Can't Cuddle a Crocodile is about a sister who ends up pretending she is an array of different types of animals. She pretends she is a monkey, a bear, a camel, a penguin, and finally a crocodile. Then she decides to be herself again.

[Jenna]

Kuvakirjassa mielikuvituksen todellinen voima näkyy! Myös ympärillä olevat aikuiset lähtevät rohkaisevalla tavalla lapsen leikkiin mukaan.

[Markku Kesti]

Ihan ok kuvakirja, jossa mielikuvituksen voima todella näkyy.

[Suvi]

Kirjassa on värikkäät koko aukeaman kokoiset pastelliset kuvat, mutta tyyli ei ole suosikkini, tulee liikaa 90-luku mieleen. Ihan ok tarina lasten mielikuvitusleikeistä.

[Tapani Aulu]

Lapsen mielikuvitus ja roolileikit aidon tuntuisesti.

[Surya]

Nice book. I loved the book "kiss the crocodile" by Sean Taylor and assumed this was something similar. It is different and cute.