- Hardcover: 32 pages
- Publisher: Hodder Children's Books (17 Mar 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340882158
- ISBN-13: 978-0340882153
- Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 24.6 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 901,495 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Nick Maland's clever perspectives make the alligator increasingly alarming as he swells to fill more and more of the page in this well-created story of facing down fear. (The Guardian )
Using elements of rhythm and rhyme as well as an enjoyably predicable question-and-answer refrain the text maintains a playful tone beneath the scary details... Expressive line drawings, brightened with watercolour washes, illustrate the story with wit and style... good fun. (Booklist )
Winner of Blue Parent's Choice Award.
Using elements of rhythm and rhyme as well as an enjoyably predicable question-and-answer refrain the text maintains a playful tone beneath the scary details... Expressive line drawings, brightened with watercolour washes, illustrate the story with wit and style... good fun. (Booklist )
Winner of Blue Parent's Choice Award.
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Reminiscent of We're Going on a Bear Hunt, this text is an absolute delight to read aloud, enabling a child audience to really join in. An alligator is creeping up the stairs, slithering down the hall and swishing and swooshing its tremendous tail and the children are very scared. Until they decide they've had enough of all this scary alligator stuff! And they banish him back from where he came. Beautifully designed and illustrated this book is a real treat! (20050410)
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Format:Paperback
What a fantastic book - I can't believe it isn't more well know as it should be! In itself it is a great fun read with the repetition children love (were the children scared) and a story that develops right from the first cover through to the back page that my son loves.
Aside from the obvious enjoyment we get out of reading the book it does have a fantastic message which has been a great help in ridding both his bedroom and (those of his friends) of "night time monsters". The synopsis of the book being that the aligator gets closer and closer to the children and then "the children decide they've had enough of all this scary aligator stuff and shout - Aligator you get out. Was the Aligator scared - YOU BET IT WAS" all the way back to its drain. After reading the book its an easy suggestion to try shouting at our "monsters" and watch them tumble down the stairs and out of the front door like the crocodile. Thouroughly recommended!
Aside from the obvious enjoyment we get out of reading the book it does have a fantastic message which has been a great help in ridding both his bedroom and (those of his friends) of "night time monsters". The synopsis of the book being that the aligator gets closer and closer to the children and then "the children decide they've had enough of all this scary aligator stuff and shout - Aligator you get out. Was the Aligator scared - YOU BET IT WAS" all the way back to its drain. After reading the book its an easy suggestion to try shouting at our "monsters" and watch them tumble down the stairs and out of the front door like the crocodile. Thouroughly recommended!
Format:Paperback
My 5 year old started school last September and this was one of the many books in his classroom, which he and quite a few of his classmates have taken a liking to, so much so that it is a race in the morning to see who gets the book first! I sat there the one morning and read it with him and thought it was a thoroughly fantastic book, hence why I then ordered it for him and have one very happy boy indeed. It has repetition that children love and the illustrations are great. All in all it is one great book, and I would definitely recommend it.
Format:Paperback
My 3 year old loves this book. Although a scary "croc" he loves the repitition and the fact that in the end its the croc who is scared of the children.Its a good book for getting children to learn not to be scared and to face up to their fears.
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