A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher

by Mike Thaler

Book Overview

Ms. Jones takes her class to the zoo. While feeding a hippo she falls in and the hippo swallows her. Now who will teach the class? Why the hippo, of course! This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 0545357071
• ISBN13: 9780545357074
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Hippopotamus Ate The Teacher

The book A Hippopotamus Ate The Teacher is about this teacher and her class and how they go to the zoo. While at the zoo they visit each of the animals. Each is as interesting as the last until they get to the hippopotamus. While visiting the hippopotamus the teacher feeds it a peanut and leans to far over and falls over the rail into the hippopotamus. The hippopotamus then goes back to school and teaches the class. The lesson that this book teaches is that when at the zoo don't lean to far over the railing, and that hippopotamus' don't make good teachers. I think that the book was good because it was entertaining and it allowed you to use your imagination.

One of my favorite children's books...

I am now twenty years old, but from a very young age this book was my favorite. Children of all ages love to use their imaginations, and "A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher" lets them do just that. The portrayal of the adventures of a Hippo teacher and her students will make you laugh and wish you had a hippo for teacher (but only for a while because its hard to sit on a hippos lap).