Winner of Picture Book category Waterstone's Children's Prize 2014 Longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal 2014 - Highly Commended in the UKLA Book Awards 3-6 age category 2014. - Brave readers will love to dive into the wide open jaws of the hungry crocodile on the cover of this book! And courage is needed to continue when it becomes clear that the crocodile is furious because he has fallen right out of one book and right into another!
Readers are challenged to peek inside and see what is bothering the crocodile…Can they do it without letting the cross croc escape? An entertaining book with lots to talk about.
Watch out! A crocodile is eating his way through your favourite bedtime picture book!
What would you do if you were settling down for a quiet bedtime story and you realised that a crocodile had fallen into your book? And what if that crocodile was furious? Would you slam that book shut or would you be brave enough to peek? This very grumpy crocodile has ended up in totally the wrong book, and so he decides to eat his way out. Just watch out for your fingers!
A hilarious story with diecut holes throughout that is great fun for the reader but bad news for a cross crocodile!
Winner of the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize 2014
Can't get enough? Discover more inventive and interactive stories from bestselling picture book creator, Nicky O'Byrne. Why not try Bad Cat, Open Very Carefully, What's Next Door?, The Last Book Before Bedtime, Use Your Imagination.
When Nicola was 5 years old her parents banned Saturday morning television, and she has been drawing ever since. Nicola grew up in Singapore surrounded by the vibrant colours of the tropics and had not even heard of illustration as a career before she discovered the Illustration course at Edinburgh College of Art. Having graduated from ECA, Nicola has now completed a Masters in Printmaking from Camberwell College of Art, as well as pursuing a career in children's book illustration. She gets most of her ideas for children's books when she should be working on something else, and bases all of her characters on people she knows.
