Crictor

Crictor is a boat constrictor Madame Bodot receives as a birthday gift from her son, who’s in Africa studying reptiles. She fully adopts Crictor as a pet, knitting him sweaters and bringing him to work with her at the public school. Crictor saves Madam Bodot from a local burgler and becomes loved and respected by the entire village. Both Ungerer’s prose and line drawing illustrations are friendly and amusing, and it’s not often you find such a sweet story about snakes!

Cute story and illustrations, but it took a while to get to the problem the main character had to solve--it didn't occur until the 13th spread. So as we were reading, I was thinking "Okayyy...so he's a great little snake. So what?"

Not my favorite of Tomi Ungerer's books, but still cute. I especially love the name Crictor for a boa constrictor.

Dated in appeal, the science is, of course, ridiculous, and the metaphor is lost. Imo. I didn't like it when I was a child and I don't now. There are a few brilliant books by Ungerer, but I just cannot understand why some readers think that this is one of them.

i don't like animals behaving like humans. but his snake form was quite fun and made the story.

1.息子から誕生日にプレゼントされたへびをペットとしてかわいがり、へびは人々の役に立ち、強盗を捕まえ、銅像を立ててもらいました。
へびは“気持ち悪い“ ”怖い”というイメージを持っていましたが、とてもかわいらしく描かれていました。

2.Crictor even inspired the local sculptor to make a statue in his honor.

3.500字

4.5分

Crictror is a good example of fiction because the snake completes tasks normal snakes would not. He sleeps in a bed, helps with daily tasks, and even learns the alphabet and how to help teach it. This book is a good fantasy because it is believable enough a snake like this could exist and t makes the reader with they had a pet like crictor.