Paul Schmid

Young children with first day jitters will be delighted (and possibly a bit confused) by Oliver's alligator. When anything or anyone at school makes Oliver nervous, he just has to say, "Munch, munch" and the alligator eats it up. By the end of the book, the alligator has swelled to the size of...the school! And Oliver realizes that there's a lot of fun going on inside that alligator.

I adored Schmid's stubby-legged children and ever-expanding (not at all scary) alligator. The simplicity of the illustrations reminded me of one of my favorite illustrators [a:Peter McCarty|202298|Peter McCarty|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1337692380p2/202298.jpg].… (plus d'informations)