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Download or read book The Hippopotamus written by Stephen Fry and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major motion picture: A “deliciously wicked and amusing” tale of a cranky curmudgeon investigating strange goings-on at an English country house (The New York Times). “I’ve suffered for my art, now it’s your turn.” So begins the story of Ted Wallace, unaffectionately known as the Hippopotamus. Failed poet, failed theater critic, failed father and husband, Ted is a shameless womanizer, drinks too much, and is at odds in his cranky but maddeningly logical way with most of modern life. Fired from his job at the newspaper, Ted seeks a few months’ repose and free liquor at Swafford Hall, the country mansion of his old friend Michael Logan. This world of boozy dinners, hunting parties, and furtive liaisons has recently been turned on its head by miracles, healings, and phenomena beyond Ted’s comprehension. As the mysteries deepen, The Hippopotamus builds into a rollicking sendup of the classic British mystery that is “tremendously funny” (Christopher Buckley) and a “near-perfect book” (Entertainment Weekly). The basis for the recent movie starring Roger Allam, Matthew Modine, and Fiona Shaw, “The Hippopotamus is animated by an antic sense of comedy and features a willfully feckless hero . . . Described in uproarious terms that suggest Wodehouse crossed with Waugh, Swafford emerges as a parody of every upper-class country house ever depicted in an English novel” (The New York Times).
Book Synopsis I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas by : John Rox
Download or read book I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas written by John Rox and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Blue Hippopotamus by : Phoebe Gilman
Download or read book The Blue Hippopotamus written by Phoebe Gilman and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!
Book Synopsis But Not the Hippopotamus by : Sandra Boynton
Download or read book But Not the Hippopotamus written by Sandra Boynton and published by Little Simon. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shy hippo makes a big impact in this anniversary edition of a Sandra Boynton classic. A hog and a frog cavort in the bog. But not the hippopotamus. A cat and two rats are trying on hats. But not the hippopotamus. The original But Not the Hippopotamus was an instant favorite among children and parents. Now this hilarious Boynton book is back in a Special 30th Anniversary Edition, complete with its silly rhymes and humorous, charming illustrations. In this simple, playful board book, a shy hippo watches as other animals engage in social activities. Finally, the other animals invite the hippo along and, after dithering a moment, she leaps into the fun...with hilarious results. The repetitive, enjoyable rhythm, cheerful mood, and well-crafted, simple rhymes will endear this story to toddlers everywhere. This anniversary edition has an enlarged trim size and metallic ink on the cover, making this Boynton classic even more special.
Download or read book Hippospotamus written by Jeanne Willis and published by Andersen Press USA. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hippopotamus had a spotamus . . . on her bottomus! "It's a blister!" said her sister. "It's measles!" said Weasel. "It's hippopox!" said Fox. But in the end the spotamus turns out to be something hilariously unexpected!
Book Synopsis That's Not a Hippopotamus! by : Juliette MacIver
Download or read book That's Not a Hippopotamus! written by Juliette MacIver and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A class trip to the zoo descends into a chaotic hunt for the missing hippopotamus. Teacher, zookeeper and all the children join the search. The noise and drama reaches a pitch, and no one thinks to listen to quiet Liam, who really might know where the hippo is hiding. That's Not a Hippopotamus is a deft and delightful tale, packed with word play and madcap energy--and with a whole different story to enjoy in the illustrations.
Book Synopsis A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher by : Mike Thaler
Download or read book A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher written by Mike Thaler and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1981-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Ms. Jones is eaten by a hippopotamus during a class trip to the zoo, she still returns to school to teach her pupils.
Book Synopsis Hippopotamus Pool by : Elizabeth Peters
Download or read book Hippopotamus Pool written by Elizabeth Peters and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the Hippopotamus Pool a legend? Or Amelia's nemesis! A masked stranger offers to reveal an Egyptian queens' lost tomb - and Amelia Peabody and her irascible archaeologist husband Emerson are intrigued, to say the least. When the guide mysteriously disappears before he can tell them his secret, the Peabody-Emersons sail to Thebes to follow his trail, helped - and hampered - by their teenage son Rameses, and beautiful ward Nefret. Before the sands of time shift very far, all of them will be risking their lives foiling murderers, kidnappers, grave robbers, and ancient curses. off once again on a rollicking adventure involving archaeology, murderers, kidnappers, grave robbers and ancient curses. And the hippopotamus Pool? It's a legend of war and wits that Amelia is translating, one that alerts her to a hippo of a different type - a nefarious, overweight art dealer who is on course to become her new arch-enemy!
Book Synopsis When I Woke Up I Was a Hippopotamus by : Tom MacRae
Download or read book When I Woke Up I Was a Hippopotamus written by Tom MacRae and published by Andersen Press USA. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When I woke up I was a Hippopotamus! Yawning in the morning, I raised up my sleepy head, then took one look out of the window and got straight back into bed." A little boy transforms into different creatures as his moods change throughout the day, until finally he goes a little too far and discovers his parents have transformed too!
Download or read book Elmer and the Hippos written by and published by Andersen Press USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When hippopotamuses come to live at the elephants' river, Elmer finds out why they have come and enlists his friends to help them make things better.
Book Synopsis I Had a Hippopotamus by : Hector Viveros Lee
Download or read book I Had a Hippopotamus written by Hector Viveros Lee and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An imaginative boy opens a box of animal crackers and gives his family members a hippopotamus, anaconda, rhinoceros, and other exotic animals.
Book Synopsis Where's My Hippopotamus? by : Mark Alan Stamaty
Download or read book Where's My Hippopotamus? written by Mark Alan Stamaty and published by Dial. This book was released on 1977 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Henry's favorite pet, a hippopotamus, disappears, he follows a trail of clues hoping to find it and meets a lot of nice people along the way.
Book Synopsis The Unhappy Hippopotamus by : Nancy Moore
Download or read book The Unhappy Hippopotamus written by Nancy Moore and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harriet wanted to be happy again and finally learns to be herself.
Book Synopsis The Hippopotamus by : Christine Denis-Huot
Download or read book The Hippopotamus written by Christine Denis-Huot and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With many colorful photos and helpful text, this book presents a look at the hippopotamus -- from physical description to how they live to how they raise their young. Also gives a discussion of their genealogical roots, and endangered status in the world environment.
Book Synopsis I've Lost My Hippopotamus by : Jack Prelutsky
Download or read book I've Lost My Hippopotamus written by Jack Prelutsky and published by Greenwillow Books. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the animals in this book are real. They include: the hippopotamus (she's missing) the elephant (he's artistically talented) the octopus (it's great at multitasking). Others may not be quite so real. These include: the wiguana (very hairy, for a lizard) the halibutterfly (there's something fishy about it) the gludu (quite clingy). In the tradition of Jack Prelutsky's classic poetry collections The New Kid on the Block, It's Raining Pigs & Noodles, and A Pizza the Size of the Sun, here is a book packed with more than 100 funny poems and silly pictures. Most of the poems are about animals—some are big and some are small, some have unusual interests, and some are just plain unusual.
Book Synopsis The Twenty-seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race by : Morris Lurie
Download or read book The Twenty-seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race written by Morris Lurie and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1989 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This funny, exciting and best-selling story takes you behind the scenes as eight-year-old Edward trains for the greatest swimming marathon of all!
Book Synopsis The Blue Faience Hippopotamus by : Joan Grant
Download or read book The Blue Faience Hippopotamus written by Joan Grant and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1991-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having fallen in love with a human princess, a hippopotamus goes to a magician to be turned into something that the princess could love in return.
