Golly, Miss! A lot amiss. A missing hippopotamus! Good thing we’re here. The best, hands down, of hippo-hunters in the town.
Hee’ss sup per tall! I’ll fetch him in no tim me at alll.
I got ’im, Miss! I got ’im, Miss! I got ’im by his trotter, Miss!
Stinking hippopotamus! What a lot of bother, Miss. He’s ridiculed the lot of us. We’re nothing but the most forlorn of hippo-hunters ever born.
Home we go, then. Fingers crossed that blooming hippo isn’t lost.
Excusee me, Miss!
That’s Not a Hippopotamus!
Juliette MacIver is a picture-book writer and mother of four, whose popular books regularly feature in book awards. Sarah Davis has illustrated more than 30 books and won many awards. They worked together on Toucan Can!,
“I got ’im, Miss! I got ’im, Miss! I KNEW that I could spot ’im, Miss!”
also published by Gecko Press.
… “THAT’S not a hippopotamus!”
MacIver • Davis
ISBN 978-1-927271-96-4
51699
9 781927 271964 >