If I had a Crocodile (PB) living pastiches romanticism to get rendered

pastiches romanticism to get rendered down to a sentimental blubber – all the better to model those bleak feelings often so inexpressible in real life

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If I had a Crocodile (PB) living pastiches romanticism to get renderedA charming and imaginative story in the bestselling If I Had a . . . series, which imagines life with a crocodile as a pet. Theres more to a crocodile than its scaly skin and scary teeththey stay cool under pressure (in part because they cant sweat) and on a rainy day they love nothing more than a fast game of Snap! In this humorous, energetically rhyming tale, a little girl experiences exactly what life would be like with a wild creature for a pet.