Tomi Ungerer Classic: Crictor-Chinese

By: Tomi UngererOriginally Published in: France Format: hardcoverLanguage: Simplified ChinesePages per book: 32Lines per page: 1-3Audio book: Available by QR code on bookLuka® can read this book! 克里克塔 (kè lǐ kè tǎ) Crictor is originally published in 1958 by famed French author Tomi Ungerer and subsequently featured on “Reading Rainbow”. It is an adorable story about an unlikely hero. There was once an old lady named Madame Bodot who lived in a small French town. She had one son who lived in Africa and studied reptiles. One day, she received an O-shaped package. It was a birthday gift from her son-- a snake! She went to the zoo to find out if the snake was poisonous. She learned that it was not, but that it was a Boa Constrictor. She decided to call it “Crictor” for short. She treated the snake like her own child: giving him milk, helping him grow, knitting him a sweater, etc.  When she took him on errands, people were shocked that she had a snake as a pet. Since she was a teacher, she