Above: LocaniW and KeithL reading their copies of Roald Dahl’s classic The Enormous Crocodile.
The plot summary in the book’s Wikipedia entry contains spoilers, but the first two sentences don’t give away the ending:
One day an enormous crocodile goes tramping through the forest telling all the animals he’s going to eat children. The animals tell him that it’s a horrible thing to do but he tries to use his tricks to eat the tasty children nonetheless.