Can Hippo Jump?
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The illustration on the front of BfK this month is from Rub-a-Dub-Dub: Val Biro's 77 Favourite Nursery Rhymes (see Authorgraph for details). The book is published by Blackie and we thank them for their help in using this illustration.
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Can Hippo Jump?
This is a really worthy successor to "AHHH!" said Stork. Frog and each of the animals ask Hippo why he can't jump. Finally he decides to try, practises all night and inadvertently proves to an ultimately rather flattened Frog why Hippos aren't really built for such action!