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The Book:
BEWARE OF THE CROCODILE
Author/Illustrator: Martin Jenkins, illos. by Satoshi Kitamura
Publication Info.: Candlewick, 2019
Categories: Nonfiction, expository, humorous voice
What’s noteworthy for authors and educators:
How do we deal with difficult topics in #nonfiction. Martin Jenkins deals with death offstage in BEWARE THE CROCODILE. In other words, it happens between the pages, and the reader doesn’t see it. Instead, Jenkins muses, “What happens next is rather gruesome. In fact it’s so gruesome that we should skip the details. Let’s just say there’s a lot of twirling and thrashing, and then things go a bit quiet.” The reader gets the suggestion of death with humor and without the gory details.
Kirsten W. Larson 