author / illustrator: Souleymane Mbodj/Emma Schnellbach
ages: 4+
32 pages
23 x 23 cm
hardback
French
Les Éditions des Éléphants
Crocodile Tears
Old habits die hard! A new African traditional tale full of humour and clever tricks.
Jasig the crocodile is trapped! He cries but no one dares to free the great predator from the net that holds him… Except Bandioli, the tender-hearted ostrich, who nonetheless makes Jasig promise that nothing bad will happen to her.
Filled with gratitude, Jasig becomes her protector — and the protector of her chicks too. That is, until drought strikes, the river dries up, and famine starts...
Once again, Souleymane Mbodj transposes our vast human comedy to the African savannah, where the vices and virtues of humans are perfectly embodied by the traditional cast of animals, competing with each other through trickery, deceit, and broken promises — all to the delight of the reader.BY THE SAME AUTHOR, illustrated by Magali Attiogbé:
The Chameleon Who Thought He Was Ugly