None of her jungle friends can find Hilda Hippo a quieter, less disruptive replacement for dancing, her favorite hobby, until Water Buffalo suggests an activity that allows Hilda to express her dance creativity in a new way.

Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of the hippopotamus.

Hippopotamuses celebrate their belly buttons.

A young hippopotamus' mother bakes cupcakes for him to take to school on his birthday.

While enjoying a day of swimming with his family, Hugo Hippo encounters several situations in which he must make decisions about his personal safety.

It looks like trouble when Fragility, a hippopotamus whose feelings are easily hurt, meets Rudy, a rude elephant, on the soccer field.

Much to her surprise, a young girl's on-stage mishaps are reviewed favorably by the theater critic.

Hippo companions George and Martha learn simple lessons about friendship in several adventures, in which George offends Martha by telling her to go away, the two reach a compromise over their worrying habits, George breaks a promise, and Martha loses George's birthday present.

Larger and larger groups of hippos join a lone hippopotamus for a night-time party.

What happens when the book gets it wrong? Max is not a cat-- Max is a dog! But much to his dismay, this book keeps instructing readers to "see the cat." How can Max get through to the book that he is a dog? In a trio of stories for beginning readers, author David LaRochelle introduces the excitable Max, who lets the book know in irresistibly emphatic dialogue that the text is not to his liking. Illustrator Mike Wohnoutka hilariously depicts the pup's...