The Crocodile Under the Bed: The classic illustrated children’s book from the author of The Tiger Who Came To Tea

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The only remaining ingredients ensuring Kerr's contentment and longevity are a brisk walk through Barnes Common every evening, a Martini Rosso with lunch and a whisky in the evening. "That's 14 units, that's all right!"

Kerr's family experience also informs her views on the debate over whether to legalise assisted suicide. Her father had a stroke in 1948 and her mother provided the pills with which he ended his life a few weeks later. "Well, I'm all for it," she asserts. "In his case, he wouldn't even have been able to go to Dignitas because it wasn't life-threatening. I would extend it – I mean, Alzheimer's isn't life-threatening and you're supposed to go and be a burden to everybody and put up with this when you know that you're not there. I certainly have a stash of sleeping pills. Most people I know are over 80 and I think we all have, just in case – but, of course, you might not have time to take them. It is a very gloomy conversation..." I read The Tiger Who Came to Tea when I was a child and loved it. I remember being obsessed with the bit where the tiger came and drank all the water in the tap. I think it was the domesticity of it, that this person was at home and that this could actually happen. It was so matter-of-fact. Nothing really happens but it's still somehow magical. Het meisje dat de krokodil onder haar bed ontdekt, denkt nu: leuk! Ze besluit het beest met haar hoepel te temmen, en dat is het begin van een bijzondere vriendschap. Net zo stoer en eigenzinnig als hun hoofdpersoon zijn de nieuwe illustraties van Ingrid en Dieter Schubert.Kerr says of her father that he had "a great talent for happiness". It is another feature that has clearly been passed down. Make a list of food and drink that you might need at a party. Calculate the total cost for different numbers of people.

Judith Kerr was born in Berlin in 1923 but escaped from Hitler’s Germany with her parents and brother in 1933 when she was nine years old. Her father was a drama critic and distinguished writer whose books were burned by the Nazis, because he dared to speak out against the regime. The day after the family left Berlin, the authorities came to arrest them, and throughout the war there was a price on her father’s head. Judith and her family passed through Switzerland and France before finally arriving in England in 1936. Judith wrote about her experiences in her classic autobiographical story, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit. Kerr is having none of it. "Well, you wouldn't snuggle the Gestapo, would you?" is her standard riposte. "I'm trying to think if I'm traumatised..." she says haltingly, taking a long pause after I ask if she will admit to there being any pain lurking behind her pictures. "No, I'm just hugely, hugely grateful for what I've had," she decides. "I mean, what more can you want – doing work that you love, a happy marriage, children, in a country at peace for 70 years?" Retell the story from Matty’s point of view. This could be in the form of a diary entry about his day. Sinds het verschijnen van Er ligt een krokodil onder mijn bed! in 1980 hebben talloze kinderen hun angst voor het donker overwonnen met dit favoriete prentenboek. Watch this video of Judith Kerr talking about her illustrations and the decisions that she makes when she is drawing and writing her books:It is a status that continues to define her. "My mother, who was crazy about England, sort of behaved as if she was actually English. But she spoke with a slightly German accent. Once, she said, 'When we won the First World War...'