Author: Steve Jenkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547488262
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
How to Clean a Hippopotamus, a book about animal symbiosis, offers readers a close-up, step-by-step view of nature’s fascinating partnerships. Find out why a mongoose comes running when a warthog lies down, how a crab and an iguana help each other out, why ravens follow wolves, and more. Witness the ingenious lifestyles of some of the world’s most unusual animal partners in this book of curious biology, a symbiotic collaboration by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.
How to Clean a Hippopotamus
Author: Steve Jenkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547488262
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
How to Clean a Hippopotamus, a book about animal symbiosis, offers readers a close-up, step-by-step view of nature’s fascinating partnerships. Find out why a mongoose comes running when a warthog lies down, how a crab and an iguana help each other out, why ravens follow wolves, and more. Witness the ingenious lifestyles of some of the world’s most unusual animal partners in this book of curious biology, a symbiotic collaboration by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547488262
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
How to Clean a Hippopotamus, a book about animal symbiosis, offers readers a close-up, step-by-step view of nature’s fascinating partnerships. Find out why a mongoose comes running when a warthog lies down, how a crab and an iguana help each other out, why ravens follow wolves, and more. Witness the ingenious lifestyles of some of the world’s most unusual animal partners in this book of curious biology, a symbiotic collaboration by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.
How to Clean a Hippopotamus
The Blue Hippopotamus
Author: Phoebe Gilman
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 1443124389
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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!
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 1443124389
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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!
Don't Put Socks on the Hippopotamus
Author: Terry Kelley
Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780566079894
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book reminds us to beware tasks which are pointless, in a way we're unlikely to forget. 74 further rules reflect the personal style of Terry Kelley. They cover all the key aspects of management practice, including leadership, change, etc.
Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780566079894
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book reminds us to beware tasks which are pointless, in a way we're unlikely to forget. 74 further rules reflect the personal style of Terry Kelley. They cover all the key aspects of management practice, including leadership, change, etc.
A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher
Author: Mike Thaler
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780380780488
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
After Ms. Jones is eaten by a hippopotamus during a class trip to the zoo, she still returns to school to teach her pupils.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780380780488
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
After Ms. Jones is eaten by a hippopotamus during a class trip to the zoo, she still returns to school to teach her pupils.
The Truth About Bears
Author: Maxwell Eaton, III
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1250306221
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Maxwell Eaton III's The Truth About Bears is a lighthearted nonfiction picture book, filled with useful facts about bears that will make you laugh so hard you won’t even realize you’re learning something!
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1250306221
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Maxwell Eaton III's The Truth About Bears is a lighthearted nonfiction picture book, filled with useful facts about bears that will make you laugh so hard you won’t even realize you’re learning something!
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Author: John Rox
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060529423
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060529423
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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.
Mouse and Hippo
Author: Mike Twohy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481451251
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481451251
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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!
Hip, Hip, Hip Hippopotamus
Author: Mary Rice Hopkins
Publisher: Crossway Books
ISBN: 9780891079057
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Rhyming text presents a humorous celebration of God's creation, from the sea and forest to the hippopotamus.
Publisher: Crossway Books
ISBN: 9780891079057
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Rhyming text presents a humorous celebration of God's creation, from the sea and forest to the hippopotamus.
Hippos Go Berserk
Author: Sandra Boynton
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780689834998
Category : Counting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the moment when one hippo calls his friends over for a party to the climactic moment when all the hippos really do go berserk, the action in this funny book never lets up--even when the party's over and all the hippos go their separate ways. First published in 1977 and now formatted with an expansive design and bold, new vibrant colors, Hippos Go Berserk! offers inspired silliness. Full color. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780689834998
Category : Counting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the moment when one hippo calls his friends over for a party to the climactic moment when all the hippos really do go berserk, the action in this funny book never lets up--even when the party's over and all the hippos go their separate ways. First published in 1977 and now formatted with an expansive design and bold, new vibrant colors, Hippos Go Berserk! offers inspired silliness. Full color. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.