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George and Martha is a series of children's books written and illustrated by James Marshall between 1972 and 1988. Each book in the series contains five short stories describing interactions between two hippos, George and Martha (named after the first U.S. president and his wife).
Jeanette Winter also created a picture book about Owen titled "Mama: A True Story". Presented by Vital Theatre and directed by Stanley Wayne Mathis , this story was adapted into an Off-Broadway musical, Owen and Mzee The Musical, by Michelle Elliott (book and lyrics) and Danny Larsen (music and lyrics).
This list of fictional pachyderms is a subsidiary to the List of fictional ungulates.Characters from various fictional works are organized by medium. Outside strict biological classification, [a] the term "pachyderm" is commonly used to describe elephants, rhinoceroses, tapirs, and hippopotamuses; this list also includes extinct mammals such as woolly mammoths, mastodons, etc.
Busytown is a fictional town depicted in several books by American children's author Richard Scarry.Busytown is inhabited by an assortment of anthropomorphic animals, including Huckle Cat, Lowly Worm, Mr. Frumble, police Sergeant Murphy, Mr. Fixit, Bananas Gorilla and Hilda Hippo.
Elizabeth C. Bunce is an American author who writes mysteries, fantasy, and ghost stories.Best known for her Edgar Award-winning Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery series and her novel A Curse Dark as Gold, her books feature strong female characters, are often inspired by folklore, and targeted toward young adult and pre-teen readers while also appealing to adults.
River of Teeth was a finalist for the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novella [3] and 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novella. [4]Kirkus Reviews considered it to be "delightful" and "fun and charming", comparing it to Ocean's Eleven, but faulted it for having some "awkward transitions". [5]
In 2018, she launched her book Like Me about a child involved in the Yarra Plenty Regional Library's literacy program "Doggy Tales". [4] Her 2016 novel Hijabi Girl , co-written with Ozge Allan, is about a diverse group of school friends in modern Australia, [ 5 ] and has been turned into a musical puppet show. [ 6 ]
The Hippopotamus (1994) is a comic novel by Stephen Fry.Written in part as an epistolary novel, it is largely narrated by the main character Edward "Ted" Wallace.Wallace is an alcoholic washed-up poet and theatre critic who, having been fired from his newspaper job, accepts a lucrative commission from his terminally ill goddaughter to investigate rumours of miracle healings at Swafford Hall ...