Time to Go, Hippo

By Bob Hartman

Book Overview

When a hippo plants himself firmly in the village rice field, the villagers and the mayor do their best to convince him to move on. Seeing that aggressive means are not the solution to the monster of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745941621
• ISBN13: 9780745941622
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Chariot Victor Pub
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Time to read parents!

Our family loves hippos, so this was a natural fit. It's nice to find stories with Biblical messages that have great illustrations and clever phrases to keep a child entertained. We first read this to our daughter at 3.5 and at 5 it is still a favorite. The premise of the story is a hippo who comes to a village's rice field and stays to eat. The villagers think he is a monster "stomping feet, chomping teeth, big and bumby and gray"! Baarnabus tries to tell them that it's a hippo not a monster, but no one will listen. The Mayor calls in the villagers, hounds and finally the army, but the hippo outwits them all. (nonviolently) Only Barnabus, after saying a prayer, is able to pursuade the hippo that it really is time to go. You won't be dissapointed. The book is worth the wait.