A Hippo Love Story

A Hippo Love Story PDF Author: Karen Paolillo
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 0143531530
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Book Description
When the threads that hold human society together unravel, the animal kingdom suffers. Karen Paolillo discovered this first-hand in Zimbabwe when she developed a close connection with thirteen hippos in their natural habitat, the Turgwe River. Her mission to save these exceptional animals after they came under threat of drought, land invasions and poachers developed into a beautiful African love story. It is also the stirring tale of how one woman faced personal and financial adversities while ensuring the survival of a family of hippos, with Bob, a three-ton bull, as their leader. With the establishment of the Turgwe Hippo Trust, Karen has triumphed as guardian of the hippos, and the animals have prospered ever since. A Hippo Love Story shares this heroic journey of a nature lover who became an ally of one of Africa's most fearsome animal species.

A Hippo Love Story

A Hippo Love Story PDF Author: Karen Paolillo
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 0143531530
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Book Description
When the threads that hold human society together unravel, the animal kingdom suffers. Karen Paolillo discovered this first-hand in Zimbabwe when she developed a close connection with thirteen hippos in their natural habitat, the Turgwe River. Her mission to save these exceptional animals after they came under threat of drought, land invasions and poachers developed into a beautiful African love story. It is also the stirring tale of how one woman faced personal and financial adversities while ensuring the survival of a family of hippos, with Bob, a three-ton bull, as their leader. With the establishment of the Turgwe Hippo Trust, Karen has triumphed as guardian of the hippos, and the animals have prospered ever since. A Hippo Love Story shares this heroic journey of a nature lover who became an ally of one of Africa's most fearsome animal species.

A Hippo's Tale

A Hippo's Tale PDF Author: Lena Landström
Publisher: R & S Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
Mrs. Hippopotamus has a good solution to her need for peace and quiet.

The Little Hippos' Adventure

The Little Hippos' Adventure PDF Author: Lena Landström
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789129655001
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
The little hippos are so excited the day that they are allowed to go to Tall Cliff to swim that they forget to watch out for danger.

Elmer and the Hippos

Elmer and the Hippos PDF Author:
Publisher: Andersen Press USA
ISBN: 0761364420
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
When hippopotamuses come to live at the elephants' river, Elmer finds out why they have come and enlists his friends to help them make things better.

Veronica

Veronica PDF Author: Roger Duvoisin
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307804755
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Book Description
Veronica, a hippopotamus who wants to stand out from the herd and be famous, travels to the big city where she indeed does stand out. Causing traffic jams, blocking sidewalks, and devouring a pushcart vendor’s vegetables in one big gulp, Veronia is arrested and jailed. How she discovers that there is no place like home is told with warm humor and sublimely mirthful illustrations that are great fun to share with a young child.

Mouse and Hippo

Mouse and Hippo PDF Author: Mike Twohy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481451251
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Book Description
“Entertaining…A storytime hit.” —School Library Journal “Young listeners will be pleased to make the acquaintance of these two cheerful creatures and, quite possibly, inspired to view the world in engaging new ways.” —Kirkus Reviews “Though they see the world differently and are such physical opposites…their open acceptance of each other’s point of view shows they share the most important quality needed for meaningful connection.” —The Horn Book Mouse creates a painting for his new friend Hippo—and Hippo returns the kindness in an unlikely way—in this delightful story about doing your best to make a friend happy! Mouse offers to paint a portrait of his new friend Hippo, but Hippo doesn’t quite fit on Mouse’s canvas. Still Hippo is delighted. In return, Hippo returns the favor for his new friend in the best way he knows how. In a surprising story sure to cause giggles, picture book readers will ask for this book over and over again!

American Hippo

American Hippo PDF Author: Sarah Gailey
Publisher: Tordotcom
ISBN: 1250176425
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Book Description
In 2017 Sarah Gailey made her debut with River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow, two action-packed novellas that introduced readers to an alternate America in which hippos rule the colossal swamp that was once the Mississippi River. Now readers have the chance to own both novellas in American Hippo, a single, beautiful volume. Years ago, in an America that never was, the United States government introduced herds of hippos to the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This plan failed to take into account some key facts about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two. By the 1890s, the vast bayou that was once America's greatest waterway belongs to feral hippos, and Winslow Houndstooth has been contracted to take it back. To do so, he will gather a crew of the damnedest cons, outlaws, and assassins to ever ride a hippo. American Hippo is the story of their fortunes, their failures, and his revenge. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Blue Hippopotamus

The Blue Hippopotamus PDF Author: Phoebe Gilman
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 1443124389
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Book Description
Now in paperback - Phoebe Gilman and Joanne Fitzgerald's beautiful story about the transformative power of love. When a little hippo falls in love with an Egyptian princess, he hopes that a great magician can turn him into a human boy. Alas, even the magician can't perform such a feat! Instead, the magician turns him into a toy that the princess can playwith - a beautiful blue hippo on wheels. The princess adores her toy and takes him everywhere with her. But little girls don't play with toys forever. The princess grows up and yearns for a true love. Can the hippo make her wish come true? Based on a story by Joan Grant, The Blue Hippopotamus was Phoebe Gilman's final book. The illustrations by Joanne Fitzgerald were inspired by sketches Phoebe drew before her death in 2002. *A Governor General's Award nominee!

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas PDF Author: John Rox
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060529423
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Book Description
Christmas is coming, and one little girl wants nothing more than a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy. But will Santa Claus and her parents make her Christmas wish come true? As shown in his best-selling titles The Night Before Christmas and Here Comes Santa Claus, no one can portray the holidays better than Bruce Whatley; and he doesit again with I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas. The song "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" was written in 1950 by John Rox and became a nationwide hit in 1953 when ten-year-old Oklahoma native Gayla Peevey sang the song as a way to raise money for the Oklahoma City Zoo's first hippopotamus. In December of that year the city received Matilda the hippo for Christmas.

That's Not a Hippopotamus!

That's Not a Hippopotamus! PDF Author: Juliette MacIver
Publisher:
ISBN: 1927271967
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Book Description
A class trip to the zoo descends into a chaotic hunt for the missing hippopotamus. Teacher, zookeeper and all the children join the search. The noise and drama reaches a pitch, and no one thinks to listen to quiet Liam, who really might know where the hippo is hiding. That's Not a Hippopotamus is a deft and delightful tale, packed with word play and madcap energy--and with a whole different story to enjoy in the illustrations.