Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22596 in Books
• Published on: 2000-11-06
• Binding: Board book
• 24 pages

Synopsis
One hippo, all alone, calls two hippos on the phone. So begins this counting story, in which exuberant hippopotamus guests show up in ever-increasing numbers, until an all night party is inevitable.

Customer Reviews

My daughter loves this!
This is the only Sandra Boynton book we have and my 20 month old daughter thinks it is fabulous. We read "hippo" every night and she shouts out whats going to happen next, "Beastie!", "Balloon", "Helicopter!". There are lots of things on each page to point out and helps with numbers, colours and objects too.

Great Fun
This is a wonderfully simple story about a lonely Hippo sitting at home who is visited by a number of other Hippos. They have a party (Go Berserk) and then the Hippos leave in the same groups as they arrived in leaving the first Hippo all alone again (and missing the other 44 Hippos).

The book is nicely illustrated. It is supported by a simple narrative written in rhyming couplets with a nice rhythm, which makes it good for reading aloud. The book incorporates counting as the Hippos arrive in groups of increasing size (i.e. 2, 3, 4, …, 9) and leave in groups of descending size (9, …, 2).

Great fun. Recommended.

A full house...
Among Boynton's best, this is one of my daughter's favourites.
The story, a simple tale of hippos arriving for a party, stands up well on its own, but really comes alive with the neat rhymes and great illustrations we've come to expect from Sandra Boynton.
Plenty to look at and share with your young one but also an added bonus of introducing counting in a natural and fun way!