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A rhyming look at how the jungle animals party all night at the Hippo Hop.
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-KWhile this book has a lot going for ita lively rhyming text accompanied by cut-loose, colorful watercolorsthe overall thrust of the story is slim. Cartoon animals of all shapes and sizes, from snakes to tapirs and wildebeests to zebras, converge on the Hippo Hop, a swinging nightclub where the expansive stage is full of local talent and the aisles brim with dancing fools. ``They tap,/they snap,/they clapthen stop./They leave by twos/From the Hippo Hop.'' Then, it's time to clean up and rest so that the music can begin once again. The bright double-page spreads and the rowdy, smiling beasts will attract young audiences. The text, on the other hand, merely sets the stage for the illustrations. Among other things, thoughtful readers will question whether it's really true that ``The sound gets heat/When the tapirs tap.''Martha Topol, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, MI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
As this festive rhyming picture book begins, a polite hippopotamus in tropical attire ushers readers into a jungle hot spot, a pink shack called the Hippo Hop. Behind its curtained doorway, smiling capybara waiters and a simian hostess hover expectantly. Before long, the Hop fills with ``yaks on sax,'' elephants playing trombones, snakes shaking maracas, even a dancing wildebeest who clutches a rose in her teeth. Almost every animal wears round beatnik glasses, and every one of them is in motion. At evening's end, the music grows mellow, and the staff cleans up in preparation for the next night, when the fun begins all over again. Loomis (One Cow Coughs) names numerous types in her toe-tapping narrative, inviting readers to scan each crowded spread for the spotlighted animals (``Zebras get jamming/ On the ivory keys,/Monkeys bang congas/In the coconut trees''). Westcott (Round and Round Again) tones down her sometimes bubblegummy palette, using bright watercolors and twirly lines to intensify the visual rhythms. The jitterbug-jump art and text make a great pair-Loomis and Westcott really know how to throw a party. Ages 4-7. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
Jaunty, rhyming verse describes where the animals go to have some fun when the sun goes down. At 'the hippening, / Happening Hippo Hop,' they jam, dance, and bop all night long. As the sun comes up, the revelers rest while the capybaras prepare the place for another swinging night at the Hippo Hop. Outrageously funny, bright, animated watercolors move as quickly as the text in this lively story. From HORN BOOK 1995, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
The pace is swift and the mood upbeat in this be-bopping introduction to creatures both familiar and strange. Where do animals go when the workday's over to unwind? They drop by the Hippo Hop, a happening place with elephants on the slide trombone, apes on bass, and an all-girl troupe of blue baboons to lend accompaniment. As Loomis (One Cow Coughs, 1994) serves up one fine slice of good-time rollicking, she wittily introduces an unusual bestiary to toddlers. Old friends like zebras and monkeys shuck and jive across the page to a tempo set by a rhyming rap text, while the likes of wildebeests, lemurs, yaks, and sloths hotfoot it over the floor (or in the case of the capybaras, perform cleanup). Westcott's richly watercolored fusions of Roz Chast and Ludwig Bemelmans give the animals a quick, goofy edge, maintaining enough detail in the cartoony strokes to indentify each species. Group this with Lloyd Moss's Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin! (p. 390) for a musical outing of a human kind, or Joyce Maxner's Nicholas Cricket (1989) for a demonstration in how the lower forms cut loose. A modest, preschool-sized helping of zoology enjoyably insinuated in verse to chant out loud. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.