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Counting Crocodiles

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Poor Monkey. All she has to eat are sour lemons. Someday she spies a banana tree on a faraway island, but the only way to get there is to navigate the crocodile-infested waters of the Sillabobble Sea. That’s no problem when you’re a brave and clever monkey who can count to ten and back!

Counting Crocodiles may feel familiar to you, perhaps because of its folktale roots, maybe because Will Hillenbrand’s artwork is so marvelously, comically, stylistically perfect, or perhaps because the delightful rhyme is so much like that of Lewis Carroll or Edward Lear. Here’s a sample: “On an island in the course of the Sillabobble Sea / lived a clever little monkey in a sour lemon tree. / She ate lemons boiled and fried, / steamed, sauteed, pureed, and dried. / She ate lemons till she cried, / ‘I’m all puckered up inside!'” Meanwhile, Hillenbrand’s full-page illustrations provide unending delights. In the first, most lemony of spreads, the snail is holding a whole lemon in her mouth, the fox has a glass of lemonade, and the lemon tree is laden with a blender, juicer, rolling pin, peeler, spatulas, and pans. The monkey looks suitably soured by the whole state of affairs.

On the second one page, the monkey spies a banana tree on a in a similar way deserted island. Of course, she craves a couple of of these fine fruits. And she wonders aloud how many crocodiles there might be in the Sillabobble Sea. One crusty croc emerges to imply slyly that there are such a large amount of crocs that she could easily walk on their backs to the banana island, and invites her to count them. She counts them: “… one crocodile with a great big smile, / Two crocs resting on rocks, / Three crocs rocking in a box, / Four crocs building with blocks,” and so forth, until she counts “Ten crocs dressed like Goldilocks.” Impatiently, the rascally reptiles ask her how many of them there are, she stalls, she counts them again, and lo and behold! in all of the splashing and cavorting, the monkey (with the help of the fox and the snail) gets her bananas! This is without doubt one of the most delightful picture books around! (Ages 4 to 8)

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