How to Hold a Crocodile

by The Diagram Group

Book Overview

Practical instructions for off-beat objectives. How to Hold a Crocodile is an illustrated and fun-to-read guide to the practical information that is not taught in school. This book is jammed full of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552978052
• ISBN13: 9781552978054
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Firefly Books
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 2.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Should be considered a classic.

My godparents gave me this book when I was a kid. There are a lot of useful and interesting topics in it, and the illustrations really help the cause. I actually used some of the information to figure out how to make proper togas when the garments were called for in a junior high skit. Other memorable subjects: how to hold a crocodile, how to identify a member of the Diagram Group, how to make a mummy, how to recognize a mythological creature, how to pickle walnuts (I secretly planned to try this, but never got around to it), how to handle a hamster, how to photograph fish, how to play various games, how to become a saint, how to take a cat's temperature. . . Really, How to Hold a Crocodile is good for all ages. I've looked at my copy so much that the spine isn't doing so well--and it wasn't a poorly-put-together spine to begin with. I'd recommend this item as a birthday gift, graduation gift, etc. for pretty much anyone who can read English or will be able to in the future.

A fun answer book to some practical questions

Of a lighter tone is The Diagram Group's How To Hold A Crocodile, which provides a fun answer book to some practical questions on handling wildlife; from handling a hamster or crocodile to measuring a horse. In all fairness, wildlife isn't all that's covered here - this all-encompassing 'how to Bible' includes tips on playing bagpipes, measuring humidity, surrendering, and more.

196 Pages of Chock Full of FUN and INTERESTING Facts

This book is packed with really fun and interesting things to know. Want to know how you break a thread in a sealed bottle? Use the glass as a magnifying glass to burn through it. How do you photograph a fish in a fish tank and keep it from swimming away? Put a sheet of glass behind the fish and trap it near the front of the tank. How do you put a whole pear in a bottle? Tie an empty bottle to a branch and let the pear grow inside the bottle.How do you play fox and geese, hex, tlachtli, ringo, pachisi, nyout, conkers, and so on? What do the signal flags on a ship mean? How do you tame a tarantula? How do you fire a cannon? How do you figure out when Easter is? There are lots and lots more including some things that most folks think they know such as how to mount a horse, and there are some things I would not recommend such as putting poppy seeds in your shoes so that you can walk unnoticed among people to whom you owe money.So how do you hold a crocodile? You grab it behind the head with one hand and underneath its legs with your other hand. The catch is that crocodiles grow very rapidly and soon it will become too big to hold. Then you may want to have read page 9 so you know how to RUN from a crocodile.

Fantastic facts!

Information hounds will delight in this book!It contains an incredibly ecclectic mix of strange and useful facts.Houseguests never fail to comment on my own copy. Once opened its hard to put down. This should be mandatory reading for everyone! Great fun!

A handbook for life

I was given a copy of How to Hold a Crocodile for my seventh birthday and it was an instant hit. Twenty something years later I still rely on its pearls of wisdom. Afterall who can honestly say that they haven't need to know how to how to sex an earwig, tie a toga or tell a mule from a hinny. And goodness only knows what would have happened if I hadn't learnt how to hold that crocodile.