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Green, John Patrick. (3 booktalks) |
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Booktalk #1 Best friends Hippo and Red Panda live in the old City Zoo. As the zoo becomes rundown and no one visits anymore, they finally leave to search for a better life. Hippo's lack of focus and experience lead to hilarious results. Entrees such as his pasta of bugs, insects, car keys. buttons, etc., result in immediate job firings. Read to find out what surprising changes Hippo makes when he returns to the zoo. If you like cartooning, try the step by step directions for creating your own Hippo and Red Panda cartoons, you’ll love this feel good wonderfully colorfully graphic novel. (annotated by Martha Lambertsen Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2017-2018 ) Booktalk #2 Poor Hippo. His zoo is falling apart and no one comes to visit. Will venturing out into the world to get a job find him happiness? (Connecticut Nutmeg Book Award nominee, 2018) Booktalk #3 Hippo lives a mundane life in a run-down zoo. One day, Red Panda, who left the zoo to get a job among the humans, visits Hippo. Red Panda convinces Hippo to leave the zoo and become Hippopotamister, a disguise that will help him fit in with the humans. Red Panda guides Hippopotamister through a variety of jobs - banker, fireman, fisherman, plumber, musician, athlete - trying to find the one that is right for him. Amusingly, Hippopotamister excels, mastering almost every job, while Red Panda epically fails. Hippo finds, however, that none of these jobs truly make him happy. Now that he has seen the world, will Hippo find happiness and the job that is right for him? GARDEN STATE CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS, 2019 |
| SUBJECTS: Graphic novels. Hippopotamus -- Fiction. Professions -- Fiction. Red panda -- Fiction. Zoos -- Fiction. |
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