by Margaret Mahy · Livros Horizonte · tapa dura · ISBN 9789722410069
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«O rapaz dos hipopótamos» is the children's story by Margaret Mahy, published by Livros Horizonte in hardcover (32 pages, in Portuguese).
It all starts when a hippopotamus follows a boy from school to his home. The next day there are two, and from then on, the number keeps growing. The father seeks out a witch to get a remedy against the hippos. A cumulative story with increasingly absurd situations.
Text by Margaret Mahy and illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Recommended by the Plano Nacional de Leitura for the 2nd year of schooling, intended for independent reading.
For children who are starting to read on their own and also as shared reading in the family or in the classroom.
Margaret Mahy was a New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. Many of her story plots have strong supernatural elements but her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up. She wrote more than 100 picture books, 40 novels and 20 collections of short stories. At her death she was one of thirty writers to win the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for her "lasting contribution to children's literature".
