DIAL-A-CROC - Hardcover

Dumbleton, Mike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241131421 ISBN 13: 9780241131428

Publisher: Orchard Books, 1991

Synopsis

Vanessa makes a lot of money when she captures a crocodile in the Australian outback and gets him to work for her until the crocodile becomes homesick.

About this title

From Kirkus Reviews

An imaginative, disarming first book: Vanessa has a unique money-making scheme. She captures a crocodile, tames him with a tough bargain, and rents him out--to a House of Horrors, a swimming team (the swimmers speed up to escape him), as a ticket- puncher and an ice-crusher--until Dial-a-Croc gets homesick and drives a poetically just reverse bargain. James's good-humored illustrations, featuring a relaxed but wickedly deft line, are a perfect match for the text's comical logic. Good fun. (Picture book. 4-7) -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly

Vanessa captures a crocodile as step No. 1 in a grand money-making scheme; PW called this entrepreneurial outing a "lighthearted cautionary tale." Ages 4-7.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Orchard Books
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241131421
• ISBN 13: 9780241131428
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 18