The Twenty Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race

This funny, exciting and best-selling story takes you behind the scenes as eight-year-old Edward trains for the greatest swimming marathon of all!

Eighty-four champion hippopotamuses hit the Zamboola River with a thunderous crash and the 27th Annual African Hippopotamus Race has begun!

Hippopotamus had a spotamus . . . on her bottomus! "It's a blister!" said her sister. "It's measles!" said Weasel. "It's hippopox!" said Fox. But in the end the spotamus turns out to be something hilariously unexpected!

Series contains structured teaching units for nine most commonly studied text types.

A small boy wakes during the night to a mysterious noise and imagines all the things it might be. A picture book with rhyming, repetitive text and illustrations by Terry Denton. For ages 4Q8 years.

Reproduction of the original.

I am Turtle. My eyes are black, my shell is green. Wide ocean calls me, as I lie curled in the dark. Tides roar in my blood, surf pounds in my heart. A lyrical journey of the life of a Green Turtle from hatchling beneath the sand of a coral beach, through wanderings at sea, to adulthood and returning to lay eggs of its own. Award winning illustrator Kim Toft's magnificent silk painting perfectly capture the precarious life of the Green Turtle, while author Alan Brown's poignant, mythical story sounds a hymn to this ancient but now endangered creature.