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I, crocodile

An Egyptian crocodile, with a big ego and a big appetite, is taken to Paris in 1799 by Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Main Author: Marcellino, Fred
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Harper Collins Publishers, 1999.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Napoleon > I, > Emperor of the French, > 1769-1821 > Juvenile fiction.
Crocodiles > Juvenile fiction.
Paris (France) > Juvenile fiction.
Egypt > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:An Egyptian crocodile, with a big ego and a big appetite, is taken to Paris in 1799 by Napoleon Bonaparte.
Item Description:"Michael di Capua books."
Physical Description:1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 x 30 cm.
ISBN:0062051997 (library)
9780062051998 (library)
0062051687 (trade)
9780062051684 (trade)
0060088591
9780060088590
Author Notes:Fred Marcellino, October 25, 1939 - July 12, 2001 Fred Marcellino was born October 25, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York. In 1960, he graduated from Cooper Union with a degree in painting and proceeded to Venice to study for a year. He specialized in creating art for album covers, but in 1975 switched to designing exclusively for book covers.

Marcellino was contracted by such publishers as Random House, Simon and Schuster, Knopf and Houghton Mifflin. He produced over forty book covers in a ten year period and then stopped to produce his own books, children's stories which he illustrated himself.

In 1990, Marcellino received a Caldecott Honor for his illustration of "Puss in Boots." In 1999, his book "I, Crocodile," was one of the New York Times' Best Illustrated Children's Books.

Fred Marcellino died on July 12, 2001 at the age of 61 from colon cancer.

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