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Wait!  It’s not Christmas!  What am I doing reviewing a Christmas book in February?!  Well, today is Bonny Becker day! Well, I made that up.  But today, on my blog, it’s Bonny Becker day!  If you are familiar with children’s authors and their books then, I’m pretty positive that you’re familiar with Bonny Becker.  If you’re not, then by the end of the next two days you will be!

So on to The Christmas Crocodile by Bonny Becker which is illustrated by David Small. What a fun Christmas book!  On Christmas Eve, Alice Jayne finds a crocodile underneath the tree with a red bow around his neck.  It wasn’t there for long.  Because he ate it.  And then he ate some of the presents, a shoe, and the Christmas roast.  While he wrecked havoc on Christmas, everybody had differing opinions on what should be done with him.  Uncle Theodore wanted to send him to Africa, Aunt Figgy wanted to send him to an orphanage, and her father to the zoo but all that Alice Jayne wanted was to give him a home.

They all decided to sleep on it before making a decision, but the crocodile escaped from the basement and decided to take a little nibble of Aunt Figgy’s toes.  Alice Jayne understood that he didn’t mean to be bad.  Not really.  It’s not his fault that he eats up all of Christmas.  What are they going to do with him?

I just might have to add this picture book to my Christmas book collection.  The text is really fun, the illustrations by David Small are even funner.  For a picture book, the text is on the longer side side but I can’t imagine it even shorter.  There is something new to discover on every page.  I love how the book ends.  It will have kids giggling with imagination.

Bonny Becker website and David Small website.  Bonny is also the author of My Brother, The Robot (my book review), Holbrook: A Lizard’s Tale (my book review), Just a Minute, An Ant’s Day Off (my book review). and her newest A Visitor for Bear (my book review).  It’s my pleasure today to review Bonny’s books as well as host Bonny in a wonderful interview tomorrow.

Have you had any Christmas disasters that you can contribute to a pet?  Let’s hear them?!

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