Kipper and Roly

by Mick Inkpen

Book Overview

A classic Kipper title, enlarged and reissued for a new generation of children Kipper's friend Pig only wants a pet for his birthday, so that is exactly what Kipper buys him: a little hamster called... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152163441
• ISBN13: 9780152163440
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace and Company
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.6" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 3 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Adorable!

Love this book. An adorable story

My Kid LOVES This Book!

The pictures are cute (but not overly so), the prose is well-written, and the story is great w/ the lesson of friendship & giving. I got this for my daughter when she was 13 months old. It took a couple weeks before she got to the point where she wanted to hear the whole story instead of just randomly flipping through pages & looking at the pictures. We also got Kipper's A to Z which is fantastic.

Kipper's great!

Cute book - goes word for word with the story on the video we have at home.

Nice Book

My son loves this book. He likes to spend a lot of time on the page where Roly does his 'super-trick' and practices going through tubes and jumping using his toys. Its nicely drawn and just the right length for a bed-time story.

Another delightful Kipper book.

We borrowed this one from the library. My 3 year old loved it! One of his favourite parts is where Kipper builds an adventure contraption for Roly to climb on/slide down/etc. We had fun following each sequential picture to find out what Roly was going to go on next. Definitely a fun book.

A charming delight.

If you are at all familiar with Kipper and his adventures, you will adore this book. My husband and I shared this book with our 2 and 1/2 year old, and it is one of her all time favorites.Mr. Inkpen's soft, charming illustrations along with his witty and sweet style of story telling make this book so appealing, that you will be happy to read it "over and over" again to your child. Pick it up and fall in love. Here's the outline: Kipper's friend Pig sends out a wish list for his birthday party, so Kipper visits a pet store to buy him the perfect gift. After carefully considering the many creatures in the shop, ("The stick insect... too much like a stick.") he finds a hamster and brings it home to give to Pig the next day. He names the hamster Roly, after dicovering the "tricks" he can do. Kipper adores Roly and wishes he didn't have to give him up the next day as a present to Pig. After he arrives at Pig's house, he discovers that Pig has received many pets as presents, so many in fact, that Pig, asks Kipper if he wouldn't mind "keeping Roly for him" - much to Kipper's delight.