The Crocodile in the Bedroom (A crocodile enjoys the orderly flowered wallpaper in his bedroom, over his wife's messy garden, but becomes sickly upon never leaving).The moral is, "Without a doubt, there is such a thing as too much order." List of Fables After that he seldom leaves his bed, becoming a sickly shade of green. Crocodile's garden he retreats to his bed in distress, where he is comforted by the neat floral rows of the wallpaper. When confronted with the riot of flowers in Mrs. For instance, in the first fable a bed-loving crocodile admires the orderly pattern of flowers on his bedroom wallpaper. He gives a moral to each, but while the moral is genuine, the tone of the fables is cheerful and playful rather than moralistic. Released by Harper & Row in 1980, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1981.įor each of the twenty fables Lobel's text occupies one page, with his colour illustration on the facing page.
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