What do you think?
Rate this book
Profesión: cocodrilo
Suena el despertador a las 7 de la mañana: un cocodrilo se despierta en su cama. Se despereza, lava sus dientes, desayuna, se viste y sale a la calle, como todo el mundo. Vive en una ciudad transitada, llena de coches, tranvías y subterráneos. Pero ¿qué hace un cocodrilo vestido con sombrero y sobretodo, leyendo el diario en un vagón del subterráneo? ¿Nadie le teme? ¿Nadie lo ve? ¿Acaso tampoco nadie ve en el metro a la jirafa envuelta en una bufanda kilométrica, con anteojos negros? El cocodrilo sigue su camino, atraviesa parques y calles, hasta que llega a un vestuario. Entra en calor y sale a escena.
Este es un libro sin texto escrito.
Este es un libro sin texto escrito.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published March 16, 2017
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 30 of 194 reviews
August 23, 2017
You need this book. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have kids, or grandchildren, or nieces or nephews. It will calm you down, make you smile, slow your pace as you study each picture for details and quiet jokes.
It will make you think differently about the contrast between people’s work self and private self. It will hopefully prompt you to consider how surprising might be the life away from the job of each person you encounter throughout the day. It might prompt you to adopt a more dapper, careful approach to the way you look, a bit of striving toward la bella figura. To see beauty in the small transactions of daily life.
Mostly, it will make you smile.
The gentle, watercolor paintings of life in an Italian city are so charming. They combine washes and unique character portraits in each face in an amazing way. The details will prompt a lot of careful searching and delight, and much interaction if you read this with a child. Just look for the other animals tucked into several pictures, but cunningly semi-disguised. My favorites are the giraffe and the ostrich.
By the way, no words. You don’t need any.
Buy the book. I’m buying extras to give away to friends going through troubles. Much better than a $5 hope you feel better card, and infinitely reusable.
It will make you think differently about the contrast between people’s work self and private self. It will hopefully prompt you to consider how surprising might be the life away from the job of each person you encounter throughout the day. It might prompt you to adopt a more dapper, careful approach to the way you look, a bit of striving toward la bella figura. To see beauty in the small transactions of daily life.
Mostly, it will make you smile.
The gentle, watercolor paintings of life in an Italian city are so charming. They combine washes and unique character portraits in each face in an amazing way. The details will prompt a lot of careful searching and delight, and much interaction if you read this with a child. Just look for the other animals tucked into several pictures, but cunningly semi-disguised. My favorites are the giraffe and the ostrich.
By the way, no words. You don’t need any.
Buy the book. I’m buying extras to give away to friends going through troubles. Much better than a $5 hope you feel better card, and infinitely reusable.
March 22, 2019
Loved the illustrations in this wordless picture book. The only downside is that now I really wish I were in Italy (even on my way to work!).
June 28, 2017
The professional crocodile is my spirit animal.
To my mind, this book is PERFECT. The spreads! The monkey on the cell phone!!! The time the crocodile spends picking out a tie that no one else will ever see! Because he is a PROFESSIONAL and that's how he rolls!
I do not take all this excessive exclamation point use lightly, folks. I am very serious about this book. Pick it up and look at all the pictures. Look at them again and again. Make sure you take the dust jacket off and look at the beautiful cover. Then go dream your wild crocodile dreams.
To my mind, this book is PERFECT. The spreads! The monkey on the cell phone!!! The time the crocodile spends picking out a tie that no one else will ever see! Because he is a PROFESSIONAL and that's how he rolls!
I do not take all this excessive exclamation point use lightly, folks. I am very serious about this book. Pick it up and look at all the pictures. Look at them again and again. Make sure you take the dust jacket off and look at the beautiful cover. Then go dream your wild crocodile dreams.
March 4, 2019
A good wordless picture book is a hard thing to pull off - a great one, even harder. This one is a beaut, a seemingly simple story of a crocodile's morning commute to work. But these are illustrations to get lost in. As the crocodile quietly wends his way to work, he blends seamlessly with a world that encompasses humans and animals all peacefully co-existing, going about their business in a brilliant and subtly funny tapestry. And the last page? What a great reveal!
April 5, 2020
Waking up one day, a crocodile goes through his morning activities in this wordless picture-book, from brushing his teeth to eating his breakfast. Heading out the door, his commute begins, taking him across the city on public transportation. This professional crocodile is heading to work... but what and where is work?
Originally published in Italy as Professione coccodrillo, this charming picture-book features an engaging story, one with a humorous surprise ending. Although credited to author Giovanna Zoboli - no doubt the creator of the story outline - the narrative here rests on illustrator Mariachiara Di Giorgio's artwork, which is beautifully expressive. I loved the many instances in which passers-by surreptitiously watch the crocodile in their midst, as if trying to figure out what he is doing there. I also loved the inclusion of the occasional other animal commuter in the illustrations. Recommended to anyone who enjoys wordless picture-books, or who is looking for "translations" of Italian and/or European children's books.
Originally published in Italy as Professione coccodrillo, this charming picture-book features an engaging story, one with a humorous surprise ending. Although credited to author Giovanna Zoboli - no doubt the creator of the story outline - the narrative here rests on illustrator Mariachiara Di Giorgio's artwork, which is beautifully expressive. I loved the many instances in which passers-by surreptitiously watch the crocodile in their midst, as if trying to figure out what he is doing there. I also loved the inclusion of the occasional other animal commuter in the illustrations. Recommended to anyone who enjoys wordless picture-books, or who is looking for "translations" of Italian and/or European children's books.
February 6, 2018
No words, but plenty to look at and look for in this wonderfully illustrated day in the life of a professional crocodile.
November 1, 2024
Devastating masterpiece
July 24, 2017
Review Taken From The Pewter Wolf
When I was asked to read this by Chronicle Books, there was one reason why I said yes. The cover. I mean, LOOK AT IT! IT'S A CROCODILE PICKING OUT A TIE TO WEAR FOR WORK! A CROCODILE WEARING A TIE!!! That's all. Nothing else. I had to read this because of the crocodile and him deciding what tie to wear today!
Anyway, moving on, Professional Crocodile is a wordless picture book that follows a crocodile's morning. He gets up, brushes his teeth, eats a slice of toast and makes his way to work. Where he works might surprise some readers...
This was wonderful. There is no other way to describe it. It was charming. The story was simple and very everyday (which makes it more wonderful) and the illustrations were the highlight of the book.
Children will love this book and will be looking at people on their travels, trying to spot the crocodile going to and from work.
When I was asked to read this by Chronicle Books, there was one reason why I said yes. The cover. I mean, LOOK AT IT! IT'S A CROCODILE PICKING OUT A TIE TO WEAR FOR WORK! A CROCODILE WEARING A TIE!!! That's all. Nothing else. I had to read this because of the crocodile and him deciding what tie to wear today!
Anyway, moving on, Professional Crocodile is a wordless picture book that follows a crocodile's morning. He gets up, brushes his teeth, eats a slice of toast and makes his way to work. Where he works might surprise some readers...
This was wonderful. There is no other way to describe it. It was charming. The story was simple and very everyday (which makes it more wonderful) and the illustrations were the highlight of the book.
Children will love this book and will be looking at people on their travels, trying to spot the crocodile going to and from work.
January 21, 2021
Wat een leuk boek om te bekijken! Op elke bladzijde zijn leuke details te ontdekken.
August 6, 2019
This book is adorable and the watercolor illustrations are amazing. Recommend this short kid's book highly.
June 11, 2017
What a surprise at the end! (and so many little surprises in the illustrations all the way through!)
Read
October 8, 2017Wow, yes.
October 7, 2019
Cute, even if I figured out where it was going before the end. But then it IS a book for little kids. ;)
June 8, 2017
Doesn't everyone feel like a professional crocodile sometimes? You get up, get dressed, drink some coffee - fulfill your own needs according to your own preferences - and then you get to work or school and you are expected to perform the role of brown-nosing student, or flirty guy, or wacky librarian. Sometimes it's an easy job - you just lay around looking like what people expect to see - and sometimes it's kind of frustrating.
This is a great book for thinking about those kinds of things with kids.
This is a great book for thinking about those kinds of things with kids.
August 28, 2017
This is a fantastic and beautiful surprise from my latest library trip. Professional Crocodile is just an illustrated journey - no text - but thought-provoking for all and great to look through. There are wonderful details in every page, with surprises, and a message for both kids and adults to reflect and think about. I really enjoyed this, and want to be sure I have a copy by the time we focus on textless stories this year. Great new journey for all!
September 25, 2018
Professional Crocodile by Giovanna Zoboli and Mariachiara Di Giorgio
ALSC Notable Children’s Books 2018, Younger
This wordless book highlights the daily routine of a crocodile as he heads to work. As he takes his time to read a newspaper on the metro, buy fresh bread and flowers, it leaves time for the reader to predict what his job could be. It wittingly ends with him on display as a zoo animal.
The illustrations are very detailed as it mixes humans with animals in a French town on their daily commute to work as well. There are so many details that would catch the eye of the reader like the little boy who sticks out his tongue or the one who can reach his nose with his tongue. I recommend this book for instruction as it gives young readers or pre readers to use descriptive language in telling their own stories. A book without words allows the readers imaginations to flow and give endless possibilities for narration. Because of the illustrator’s attention to detail, each student can choose a page in the book to write a story about using the images as well as their imagination and own tones to describe what is occuring in the scene.
ALSC Notable Children’s Books 2018, Younger
This wordless book highlights the daily routine of a crocodile as he heads to work. As he takes his time to read a newspaper on the metro, buy fresh bread and flowers, it leaves time for the reader to predict what his job could be. It wittingly ends with him on display as a zoo animal.
The illustrations are very detailed as it mixes humans with animals in a French town on their daily commute to work as well. There are so many details that would catch the eye of the reader like the little boy who sticks out his tongue or the one who can reach his nose with his tongue. I recommend this book for instruction as it gives young readers or pre readers to use descriptive language in telling their own stories. A book without words allows the readers imaginations to flow and give endless possibilities for narration. Because of the illustrator’s attention to detail, each student can choose a page in the book to write a story about using the images as well as their imagination and own tones to describe what is occuring in the scene.
October 10, 2017
Professional Crocodile is a delightful combination of the mundane or everyday with surprises large and small.
Its elegance and warmth quietly set it apart from its counterparts in contemporary children's literature.
I am not a big fan of wordless picture books but I found this one to be a nearly perfect "read."
This is a book I yearn to have on my own shelves.
Its elegance and warmth quietly set it apart from its counterparts in contemporary children's literature.
I am not a big fan of wordless picture books but I found this one to be a nearly perfect "read."
This is a book I yearn to have on my own shelves.
June 17, 2017
Gripping and keeps you guessing. Loved this book.
October 15, 2017
An ordinary crocodile on an ordinary day in an ordinary city gets up, dresses for work, greets his friends, and heads to his job in this charming and slyly clever wordless picture book.
Read
November 21, 2017Wordless fun leading up to a fabulous, surprise ending.
November 30, 2017
Charming & Beautiful. I just adore it.
December 23, 2017
A wonderfully witty and whimsical wordless delight.
April 2, 2018
The ending.
April 6, 2018
Oh this one was so good. Beautiful wordless story about a natty crocodile going to work. I was having a great time appreciating everybody's fashion, and seeing the other animals in the crowd!
July 26, 2018
What is this (wordless) book saying about performance, cages, zoos and traps we put ourselves into?! Italian kids must read deep. Not going to lie, this one shook me.
October 26, 2018
What a truly great wordless book. Very clever.
March 29, 2025
Silent book
December 19, 2022
Beautiful wordless book. I was moved and amused.
August 24, 2017
SUCH A GOOD WORDLESS BOOK! haha and the punchline at the end. perf!
Displaying 1 - 30 of 194 reviews