There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake

Edwards, Hazel

ISBN 10: 0823405923 ISBN 13: 9780823405923

Publisher: Holiday House, 1897

Synopsis

Portrays a huge hippopotamus on the roof of a house performing such outrageous acts as eating a cake, riding a bicycle, taking a shower, and watching television after bedtime

About this title

About the Author

Australian author Hazel Edwards writes for all age groups, but her cake-eating hippo series is translated into Chinese and recently became a short film screening internationally with the Little Big Shots film festival. More details and activities are on her website.

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 2 This book started from a family joke. Better it should have stayed in the family. A little girl believes that the family roof leaks because a hippopotamus is sitting on it eating cake. In contrast to the little girl the hippopotamus can do as he likestake a shower instead of a bath, eat special cake, stay up late watching TV, and not get smacked for doing bad things. And that's about it. It seems a slight bit of whimsy on which to hang a book. The story is matched by large watercolors with many flat surfaces; the hippo that is pictured is fairly nondescript. If your five-year-old niece told you this story, you'd pat her on the head and say "How cute, you clever child," but I don't think you'd hand her $12.95. Judith Gloyer, Milwaukee Public Lib .
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Holiday House
• Publication date: 1897
• ISBN 10: 0823405923
• ISBN 13: 9780823405923
• Binding: Library Binding
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Niland Deborah