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I liked how the book told the readers the instincts of the animals. The illustrations were also cool.

The Crocodile and the Scorpion is a book by Rebecca Emberley and Ed Emberley. It was written in 2013. The characters are a crocodile and a scorpion. It was an interesting read about arguing but it had humor in it. I liked how it taught a little bit about the animals and what their instincts are.

“You promised not to bite!”
“You promised not to sting!”

I really did enjoy the illustrations in this book it‘s very colorful

Roaring Book Press 2013
I liked this book but felt as if it ended kind of quick. I didnt really pick up a message from the book, but then again not every book needs a message i just think it‘s nice sometimes in children‘s book

Traditional lit. The Crocodile and the Scorpion is an interesting book about two unlikely friends and their nature. I think this would be a great lesson about getting along for early childhood because children often bite each other just like the crocodile and the scorpion.

I think this book is interesting. Young children will enjoy it because of the bright colors and pictures.

“We could be friends”

“It‘s hard to make friends when you‘re always stinging/ biting each other”

The readers will be skeptical when the characters promise not to sting/bite each other while the croc carries the scorpion across the River.

Their natures come back to “sting” them. The scorpion was always stinging things & the crocodile was always biting.
-traditional lit

“If you happen to find yourself at the edge of the great big river and you put your ear to the water you can hear them arguing still... that is if someone has not settled the argument for them.”

Traditional. This story is perfect for young children. It‘s simple and a little silly with bright and bold colored illustrations. It is sure to keep attention and short and sweet enough to probably be requested to be read again.

The Crocodile and the Scorpion by Rebecca Emberley and Ed Emberley, 2013. This story tells a simple tale about two dim witted creatures who team up to cross the river but give in to their instincts to bite and sting, leading them to argue. This story is simple and short but still fun and silly. The color blocked illustrations add the the brightness of the tale and also help to give it its simple feel.

“We could be friends,” said the scorpion.
“Yes, we could,” replied the crocodile.

I liked how the end of the book was not a happy ending like most books. It can teach children that fighting is never the answer and you should always resolve and take to the person who‘s bothering you to try and fix it.

I love this book and I think it would be perfect in an early ed classroom! I know that at such a young age kids tend to bite and hurt other kids but reading this book I think would help them realize you shouldn‘t hurt your friends!

I loved how this book brought across the message of promises should be kept, but if they are broken, a friendship that was being build was broken.

This book was a book the I have never read or heard of before. I have read a Rebecca Emberley book before and the illustrations are exactly the same. The use of unique designs and shapes to create characters. The two characters both promise to not sting or to not bite and in the end those promises are broken, leading to arguments. Genre: traditional literature; Published: 2013; Illustrator: Rebecca and Ed Emberley

They both had brains no bigger than a pebble, which did not serve them very well, as you will see.

This book has very interesting illustrations. They are very abstract and different from others I have seen. The story line is very simple and silly but I don‘t think I would read it out loud to my class.

This book right away tells us that neither of these characters are very bright and that foreshadows the story for us. I‘ve never heard a folk story like this but it‘s definitely cute and funny. The theme of this story could be to keep your promises.

“No, no friends. I don‘t have any friends because I am always stinging things and they seem not to like it.”

I like this picture because the crocodile and scorpion meet for the first time.

The colors in this book make the pictures pop but I didn‘t like the story line.

“We could be friends”
“Neither of them had the slightest idea of what this really meant”
Both of these statements really intrigued me because to me friends is an important word but for some people it is used really loosely or maybe used with little knowledge of what it means

This page was interesting to me because I wasn‘t sure what the author was getting at. At first these creatures were trying to be friends, but at the end they wrap the book up with them bickering and not so much friends. I wonder if the author was getting at that not all people are going to be friends?

Published in 2013 and worked on by Ed Emberley as well, this story caught my eye with the very different illustrations. The use of shapes and colors added a very different feel to the book and added personality to the characters aside from the words. However, I didn‘t notice much of a theme in this book and found it kind of pointless. At first I thought it would be about making friends with people different from yourself, but the end threw me off!

“If you happen to find yourself at the edge of the great river and you put your ear to the water you can hear them arguing still.... that is if someone has not settled the argument for them.”

The book has beautiful colored pictures of the crocodile and the Scorpion on each page. The pictures are almost abstract looking.

The classic literature book I chose was the Crocodile and the Scorpion by Rebecca Emberley and Ed Emberley. The setting is on the great big brilliant blue river. The characters are crocodile and scorpion who both don‘t have friends because they tend to hurt them or scare their friends away. The plot is when Scorpion stings the crocodile while crossing the river. They get in a fight and sink to the bottom of the river.