![]() ![]() This is one of my 14 month old daughter's very favorite books. The theme had potential to be monotonous as it involves a series of pages with one more (or less) hippo on each page, but Boynton did a good job of varying the illustrations and what the hippos are doing on each page so it is enjoyable and humorous. ![]() The story involves counting up to nine and then backwards from nine to one again. The text is beautifully rhythmic and melodic and the pictures are bright and cute. Hippos Go Beserk is a humorous story of what happens when a lonely hippo decides to call some friends for a party. Boynton's familiar style can be seen in scads of other delightfully nonsensical titles, including Barnyard Dance! and Moo, Baa, La La La!. ![]() The sturdy board book will withstand lots of eager counting fingers, and maybe even a berserk hippo or two. Lively, cute new illustrations complement this edition, with big numbers (one through nine, and nine through one) boldly placed on the corner of each page. In clusters of nine, eight, seven, six, and so on, the hippos depart, finally leaving the one hippo "alone once more, the other forty-four." The well-loved Sandra Boynton wrote this tribute to silliness in 1977, inspiring generations of the very young to learn to count. Before the night is through, a houseful of hippos (and one beast) has joined the one hippo for a boisterous bash. Soon three more hippos are at the door, bringing along another four. until the one calls two other hippos on the phone. ![]()
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