The Hiccupotamus

by Aaron Zenz, Aaron Zenz (Illustrator)

Overview

“There was a hippopotamus who hiccupped quite-a-lotamus. And every time he got’emus…he’d fall upon his bottomus!” Calamity ensues when an elephant, a centipede, and a rhinoceros try finding a cure for Hippo’s colossal case of hiccups. Author-illustrator Aaron Zenz’s creativity shines through in his colored-pencil artwork in this off-the-wall read-aloud. HIC! HIC! HIC!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761456223
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	01/05/2012
Series:	Hiccupotamus and Friends , #1
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	AD420L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 6 Years

About the Author

Aaron Zenz is the author and illustrator of The Hiccupotamus, Chuckling Ducklings, and Monsters Go Night-Night. He has created art for thirty-three books in all, including The Spaghetti-Slurping Sewer Serpent by Laura Ripes and Orangutangled by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen. He lives with his large family in a small town in West Michigan. Learn more about him at www.aaronzenz.com.

Editorial Reviews

“…It’s hard to say what’s better: the whimsical, rhyming text or the beautiful colored-pencil illustrations…” —San Diego Union-Tribune

From the Publisher

"There was a hippopotamus / Who hiccupped quite-a-lotamus / And every time he got'emus... / . . . He'd fall upon his bottomus." This hippo's hiccups disturb a yellow elephant, who chases him into a centipede's construction zone. Elephant and centipede chase poor hippo past a flossing rhino, and everyone gets tangled up in the dental floss. Deciding to be less angry and more the good Samaritans, they give up the chase. "They tried to find a therapy- / Some cure which they could shareapy, / A what or why or whereapy / To stop this long nightmareapy." The group tries spinning, paper bags, scaring, submersion and vinegar until...a miracle! Hippo's hiccups are cured...but he seems to have passed them on. Bright, pudgy, round-eyed cartoon illustrations rendered in colored pencil are an apt match for the goofy slapstick of the text. Illustrator Zenz's first solo outing is Seussian silliness for the storytime set. The final page features cast biographies with humor aimed at grown-up readers. Fun for all. (Picture book. 2-7)

Kirkus Reviews