TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mahy,Margaret
AU  - Kellogg,Steven
TI  - The boy who was followed home
SN  - 0143504371
U1  - 428.6 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - North Shore, N.Z.
PB  - Puffin
KW  - Hippopotamus
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Magic
KW  - Witches
KW  - Children's stories, New Zealand
N1  - Picture story book for children; Previously published: London : Puffin Books, 1992; "A Margaret Mahy classic"--Cover
N2  - Robert is delighted when a hippopotamus follows him home from school one day. The next day he is followed by four hippos, then nine, and eventually his yard is crowded with hippos. Robert's desperate father contacts a witch, who gives Robert a pill to make him unattractive to hippos. Sadly for Robert's parents, the hippos vanish, only to replaced by a trail of giraffes. Suggested level: junior, primary
ER  -