Happy Hippo, Angry Duck. By Sandra Boynton (2011)

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Author

Sandra Boynton

Genre

Humor

Rating

4.21 of 5 Votes: 4

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ISBN

0857073117 (ISBN13: 9780857073112)

Language

English

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Children's

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About book Happy Hippo, Angry Duck. By Sandra Boynton (2011)

Happy Hippo, Angry Duck is a rhyming early reader, and while it starts off kind of stupid, it wins you over by the time you have to cluck cluck sadly. It has a nice message about friends always being there that I think could have been expounded a bit better, but I really liked the ending with that Angry Duck--I think it would have been better if Sandra would had the other critters trying to be it's friend--while it still remained grumpy, to try and instill the message just a bit more, but I sort of like the fact that it wasn't all preachy, and it went for humour more than anything else. Read this at Powell's the other day- it was, like most Boynton board books, charming and adorable and fun. Boynton board books are so charming, in fact, that they make me think that I'd like to work somewhere I could read them to toddlers all day long. That's how good this book is. But then I woke up and put the book back on the shelf, backed away until I was a safe distance, turned on my heel and ran like hell.