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My Hippo Has the Hiccups and Other Poems I Totally Made Up
162 pp.
| Sourcebooks |
April, 2009 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4022-1809-5$17.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Ethan Long.
From a boy who's disappointed with his pet banana to a fisherman who goes home to his wife after a fish grants his wish--for a wife--these poems, with strong rhythms and clever rhymes, are fun to read aloud. Long's black-and-white drawings match the tone, but the pages without art are too dull. Nesbitt reads some of his poems on an accompanying CD.