Hattie Hippo - Hardcover

Loomis, Christine

3.3

99 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0439543401 ISBN 13: 9780439543408

Publisher: Orchard Books, 2006

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Meet Hattie, an adorable little hippo who loves to dance, swim, play hide-and-seek, and host tea parties for her friends!

Acclaimed author Christine Loomis and award-winning illustrator Robert Neubecker have teamed up to create Hattie Hippo, a character whose cuteness is truly captivating! Four funny stories showcase Hattie at her best--just being Hattie. A perfect read-aloud for loads of fun.

"Hattie Hippo pirouettes on teensy, tiny toes. In dazzling, pearly, perfect teeth she holds a pale pink rose. She whirls, she twirls, she leaps on high. Two rhinos, waiting, smile. Oops! Teeny prima ballerina misses by a mile!"

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PreS. The artwork features plenty of white space, the better to show off Hattie, a young hippo who likes to be center stage. She stars in four short vignettes in which the humor sometimes comes from her size. In the first, she's pirouetting in front an audience on "teensy tiny toes," but she misses her jump and fails to fall into her rhino partner's arms (perhaps that's for the best). In another episode, her jump into a wading pool displaces all the water. The two other segments involve Hattie falling asleep at crucial moments--which, given the brevity of the text, seem too repetitive. Part of the attraction here is the crisp, rhyming dialogue, but the real lure is the artwork. The ink-and-watercolor pictures feature a heroine as sweet as she is round and jaunty. Considering the fact the story covers some well-traveled territory, Neubecker makes it fun. Although the book is in a picture-book format, it could easily be used with the easy-reader crowd, who will find it, well, easy to read. Ilene Cooper
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From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-K–In each of four episodes, a young hippo encounters a self-imposed mishap. When ballerina Hattie leaps through the air, she overshoots the waiting arms of her rhino partners. She eats all the food while her guests go hungry at her tea party. In her wading pool, she splashes the water away in a cannonball jump. During hide-and-seek, Hattie falls asleep in her hiding spot. In short, punchy rhymes, Loomis has created an enthusiastic, resilient, and endearingly oblivious heroine. Surrounded by copious white space, the warm watercolor-and-ink cartoon illustrations are funny and mesh well with the sparse text. Young children will both laugh at and identity with Hattie.–Rachel G. Payne, Brooklyn Public Library, NY
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