![]() ![]() And he’s concerned that the last 2 hippos have stolen hippo #1’s wheelbarrow. We purchased Hippos Go Berserk! and life would never be the same – the Imp loved it! We read it so often that we can recite it by heart, we’ve read it backwards, the Giant made up a jazzy, Sinatra-esque tune for it and we’d sing it in the car… Once I was back at work, the Giant was still reading it so often that he started noticing little details and making up back stories for the hippos – “Look at that one’s sidelong look, he’s thinking ‘Oh no, it’s the Johnsons again!'” He pointed out that the 9 hippos who come to work go about their jobs soberly and diligently, so therefore all the hippos do not, in fact, go berserk. ![]() ![]() So that was one of the Imp’s first outings, at about a month old. Even though we were exhausted and confused new parents, he said that we should go to our awesome local children’s bookstore and get some more of Boynton’s books. I had already known how great Boynton is, but the Giant hadn’t encountered her before. We had received one of Sandra Boynton‘s other great books, Are You a Cow?, when the Imp was born. My library recently asked staff to help with a display for “Books That Changed Your Life.” Hippos Go Berserk! was one of my picks! It may be overstating it a bit, but I feel like this book brought us together as a new family. ![]()
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