Hippos Go Berserk! - Hardcover

Boynton, Sandra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689808542 ISBN 13: 9780689808548

Publisher: Boynton Bookworks, 1996

Synopsis

The hippos meet up with their friends and enjoy an evening out at a party where chaos, fun, and wild times erupt, in a colorful counting book featuring a humorous rhyming text and enhanced by lively illustrations.

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Review

How dull, to be one hippo all alone... until the one calls two other hippos on the phone. Soon three more hippos are at the door, bringing along another four. Before the night is through, a houseful of hippos (and one beast) has joined the one hippo for a boisterous bash.

All through the hippo night,
Hippos play with great delight.
But at the hippo break of day,
The hippos all must go away.

In clusters of nine, eight, seven, six, and so on, the hippos depart, finally leaving the one hippo "alone once more, [missing] the other forty-four."

The well-loved Sandra Boynton wrote this tribute to silliness in 1977, inspiring generations of the very young to learn to count. Lively, cute new illustrations complement this edition, with big numbers (one through nine, and nine through one) boldly placed on the corner of each page. The sturdy board book will withstand lots of eager counting fingers, and maybe even a berserk hippo or two. Boynton's familiar style can be seen in scads of other delightfully nonsensical titles, including Barnyard Dance! and Moo, Baa, La La La!. (Ages 3 to 7) --Emilie Coulter

From the Author

Sandra Boynton is a popular American humorist, songwriter, children’s author, and illustrator. Boynton has written and illustrated more than forty books for both children and adults, as well as more than four thousand greeting cards and four music albums. She has designed—for various companies—calendars, wallpaper, bedding, stationery, paper goods, clothing, jewelry, and plush toys.

Edition details

• Publisher: Boynton Bookworks
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0689808542
• ISBN 13: 9780689808548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Boynton Sandra