<b>Margaret Mahy's classic story about a boy who brings home a hippopotamus quite by accident, illustrated by Steven Kellogg.</b><br> <br> <i>'What on earth is that in the goldfish pool?' asked Robert's father.<br> 'It is a hippopotamus, Father,' said Robert.</i><br> <i>'Really,' said the father. 'People should keep their hippos chained up and not allow them to go climbing into other people's goldfish pools.'</i><br> <i><br></i><br> When a hippo follows him home one day, Robert is pleased - but his parents are not! As more and more hippos crowd into the garden they turn to a witch for help.<br> <br> <br> Detailed line and pastel drawings by Steven Kellogg, and a deliciously understated text, combine in a very funny picture book by one of New Zealand's finest children's writers.
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