num_pages: 32
description: While robbing Egypt's mummies, sphinxes, and palm trees, Napoleon can't resist bringing home a souvenir crocodile as well. All Paris is enchanted with this exotic creature. But for a crocodile with an appetite as big as his ego, being the toast of the town has its downside, too. What's a crocodile who's used to a dinner of flamingo, snake, or mongoose to make of chocolate mousse? Oh, to return to his beloved Nile! But fickle Napoleon has other plans for our hero...Inspired by an obscure nineteenth-century French satire, "I, Crocodile" is the first book Fred Marcellino has written as well as illustrated.
language: French
title: Moi crocodile du nil
titlecomplete: Moi crocodile du nil (BAY.ALBUMS.DIV)
genres: Fiction, Egypt, France, Animals, Picture Books, Humor, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 289
awards: name: Child Magazine Best Book of the Year
publisher: Bayard