Dangerous Cargo

Dangerous Cargo is a narrative.  Photographer Bones Brown is in the jungle in search of the elusive golden frog.  Instead he finds a plane wreck in a swamp, but when he investigates, he finds himself trapped by dozens of hungry crocodiles, the offspring of the long ago “dangerous cargo” the plane had been carrying.  The story is told in dialogue and narrative.

The story has a problem solution structure.  The text is composed of a variety of sentence types.  Illustrations support the text but not all events are shown.  Thought balloons appear in the art.  Boldface and ellipses are used.  The book concludes with a two-page spread that tells how to write a narrative.

Some words may require clarification: hammock, amphibian, murky, submerged, decay, prised, at bay.  Similes: windows … like the eyes of a skull, vines dangled down like snake’s tails, gaping plane … like a rusty island in the middle of a sea of crocodiles.  Metaphor: curtain of vines.  Alliteration: gleaming and green.

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