In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true. Other true things about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two. This was a terrible plan. Contained within this volume is an 1890s America that might have been: a bayou overrun by feral hippos and mercenary hippo...

None of her jungle friends can find Hilda Hippo a quieter, less disruptive replacement for dancing, her favorite hobby, until Water Buffalo suggests an activity that allows Hilda to express her dance creativity in a new way.

On a visit to Don's Safari, the students in class 2B attempt to find a missing hippopotamus.

Animals pair up in these humorous rhymes.

Little Hippo falls behind the herd while grazing and looking for a friend, but when a flock of birds pesters him, Mama Hippo comes to the rescue.

"Join Fiona and a few of her animal friends as they attend zoo school for the very first time and find out just how fun it is to learn new things"--

A hippo and a bird become unlikely friends.

Starting with a pair of yellow mittens, a purple hippopotamus prepares to bundle up to go outside and play in the snow.

"When Hippo saves Mouse after he falls into the lake, Mouse paints his new friend's portrait to thank him"--

When hippopotamuses come to live at the elephants' river, Elmer finds out why they have come and enlists his friends to help them make things better.