Fall or spring, it’s really something: Opposites in nature can be absolutely amazing! In EyeLike Opposites, young readers explore the beauty of differences in the natural world. Each eye-catching spread explores the uniqueness of being unalike! As hot as a volcano or as cold as an iceberg; as heavy as a hippo or as light as a petal; whether big or small, short or tall, children will be happy to discover the wonderful world of opposites!
What should you do when you go to the zoo? Do brush your hair with a lion / Don't braid his mane. Do take a nap with a hippo / Don't let him steal all the covers.
Squiglet is cute monster who can make drawings real. He lives in a plain white world. Squiglet uses a magic crayons (Squiggle Sticks) and a squiggle pad to draw a Hippo. Squiglet uses a curved line to draw a hippopotamus called Delores. She comes to a life. Delores has a big dream. She wants to learn a dance Hippo Hop. It's the big dance at the mud hole near her home on the Swimpopo River. Squiglet try to help her.
Introduces the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, reproduction, and life cycle of the hippo. "The first hippopotamus I saw in the wild was when I was on a small boat on Lake Victoria, that huge stretch of water that is surrounded by Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. We had anchored for the night-myself and my mother and two African crew. The sun had just set and the evening was quiet and beautiful. Suddenly there was a swirling sound in the water-and there, just a few yards away, was the head of a hippo. I think it must have been a male-a bull as they are called-for it was such an enormous head.
