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The Incredible Shrinking Hippo

by Stephanie Baudet

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Simon is very excited when he finds a hippopotamus in the garden. But this is no normal hippo, this is a magic hippo. However, he soon finds out that hippos definitely don't make good pets!

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Stephanie Baudet

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Canonical title: The Incredible Shrinking Hippo

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Genres: Children's Books, Fiction and Literature, Picture Books
DDC/MDS: 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
BISAC: JUV JUVENILE FICTION General

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Languages: English
Media: Paper
ISBNs: 4
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Published: 1991
Genres: Children's Books, Fiction and Literature, Picture Books
DDC/MDS: 823.914

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