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Elschner, Géraldine

The Little Hippo: A Children's Book Inspired by Egyptian Art

32 pp. | Prestel | October, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7913-7167-2 $14.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Anja Klauss. A little blue hippo who rests beside an entombed Egyptian man awakes during an archaeological excavation and ventures out into the changed world in search of his ancestors, whom he eventually finds in the Louvre with other Egyptian artifacts from the eleventh dynasty. The opportunity for factual connection is lost in an oversimplified narrative, but the art is gorgeous and back matter is enlightening.
Reviewer: Paula M. Cairo

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