Hippo Goes Bananas!

by Marjorie Dennis Murray

Book Overview

One day, Hippo acts very strange. He bellows, spins in circles, and crashes into a tree. All of his friends think he has gone bananas But has he? Or does he just have a bad toothache? Kevin O'Malley's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761452249
• ISBN13: 9780761452249
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Two Lions
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.4" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO moaned hippo

Hippo wakes up with a toothache. He spun in a circle and crashed into a tree. His friend the Cuckoo Bird sees this and thinks Hippo is going bananas. She flies off to tell Monkey.... This is cute story. What is fun is how each animal warned adds a new part to the story as he warns another. Kind of along the lines of the old telephone game where the original message gets distorted as it passed told over and over again. In the case of the Hippo, the message eventually becomes he is knocking down trees, rolling them into the river, damming the river and flooding the Serengeti. The artwork is cute. Especially the expressions and how the smaller animals ride the larger ones. Overall, it's a good book. Especially for learners as there are repetitive sentences.

My students loved this book!

Hippo has a toothache and he looks like he is going bananas to his friends. My students loved this book when I read it to them!