Sign in with Facebook
Loading...
When I Woke Up I Was a Hippopotamus
"When I woke up I was a hippopotamus.
Yawning in the morning, I raised up my sleepy head,
Then took one look out of the window
and got straight back into bed."
A small boy's fantasies about being different creatures get him into all sorts of mischief!
Yawning in the morning, I raised up my sleepy head,
Then took one look out of the window
and got straight back into bed."
A small boy's fantasies about being different creatures get him into all sorts of mischief!
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
April 7th 2011
by Andersen
Friend Reviews
To see what your friends thought of this book,
please sign up.
This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
Add this book to your favorite list »
Community Reviews
(showing
1-30
of
64)
Apr 11, 2012
Library Quine
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Shelves:
junior-picture-books,
british-books-challenge
At different times of the day, the small boy imagines himself to be a host of different creatures. First thing in the morning he is a sleepy hippo, at breakfast he's a robot, later he's a statue, a monkey, a monster, a rocket, but his noisy giant Is the last straw, and turns his parents into dragons. Finally, when He is himself he has the best time of all.
When I Woke Up I Was a Hippopotamus, written by Tom MacRae and illustrated by Ross Collins, is the charming story of a little boy who wakes up one morning feeling like a big hippopotamus who can hardly move and just doesn’t want to get out of bed.
As the day goes on, he always seems to be a bit out of step with how he should be feeling in that moment, and each feeling is represented by a different animal or object.
Read the rest of my review at 5 Minutes for Mom.
As the day goes on, he always seems to be a bit out of step with how he should be feeling in that moment, and each feeling is represented by a different animal or object.
Read the rest of my review at 5 Minutes for Mom.
This is a great book to read to kids about being creative and thinking outside of the box. I used this book on an imaging lesson and covered up the pages to encourage kids to become the illustrators and make their own pictures in their heads.
A funny, cute story about how everyone can change into something else depending on their moods. Yea, when it's time to go to work I can be a unmoving statue but I can never be a rocket when I leave work. How is that?
Having just read a book on child nutrition, I kept thinking 'this kid needs some healthy foods!" I was thinking it was hi attitude, not his imagination that was the problem. =) Enjoyed it!
A story of a boy with a very active imagination who finds himself being a lot of different things throughout the day (a monster, a hippo, a robot, etc.).
Show the imagination of a small boy as he goes through his day and sees himself as many different things (hippo, robot, monster, monkey).
This is a fun book and good for imaging. Cover the front of the book and have students describe what they think the pics will look like.
I get the idea of where this book was trying to go but in my opinion not sure it fully got there.
Cute. Shows both the nature of an energetic child and ways to interact with that child.
At least nobody woke up as a cockroach.
A funny story about the pitfalls of an over-active imagination...
I really like this book. I can see where someone else may not.
A boy wakes up as a hippopotamus. Throughout the day he turns into a robot, a statue, a monkey, and more. The illustrations were created using watercolor, vinyl color, and pen on watercolor paper.
I *would* really like this book except for the "telling off" of parents and teachers and children. I can't get passed that phrase. It is WAY too rude to use in storytime.
A small boy imagines himself as a variety of things depending on how he is feeling throughout the day.
A little boy with a big imagination pretends to be many different things over the course of his busy day.
Nov 26, 2012
Emily Bayci
marked it as to-read
There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one »
