There's More to Hippos Than You Know: 25 Poems about Real Animals with Hundreds of Fun Facts

How do we see the animals we love (and some we may not) through human eyes? Poetry, scientific knowledge, and the vision of artists. There’s More to Hippos than You Know combines all three for children and their parents in a small book that allows us to look through a new window at familiar (the bunny and the dachshund) and exotic (the hippopotamus and the moray eel) in a new way. Short poems, both humorous and genuine, are accompanied with hundreds of fun facts and the unique and quirky illustrations of a brilliant animal artist to create a one-of-a-kind resource into the world of our fellow inhabitants of the earth. Laugh while you learn things you never knew about 25 of your favorite animals!

David Parmelee is a Brown-educated author, playwright, director, actor, and op-ed columnist (The Times-Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) whose work includes a Civil War-era historical novel (The Sea Is a Thief, Sunbury Press), two upper-grade children's books (Miss Feesenschneezen Is Ill and Miss Feesenschneezen is Fit, both with illustrator Maria deCerce, Sunbury Press), and a travel guide (The Traveler's Guide to Chincoteague and Assateague, Sunbury Press). He is also the author of 13 one-act plays, all produced by Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Gaslight Theatre, and the Scranton Fringe Festival, Scranton, Pennsylvania. He and his wife Toni Jo live in northeast Pennsylvania. Their four adult children are making their way in the world.