The Hippo Hop
by Christine Loomis
illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott
illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott
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AnimalsTranscript
00:00Gorilla da splits on the hippo-hop floor.
00:14The wildebeest twists with the brown-eyed boar.
00:16Four lemurs lindy.
00:17An iguana jives.
00:19A mole named Mindy gives a frog high-fives.
00:22In this imaginative journey into a world of singing-dancing animals young readers can
00:26chant along with the words identify animals and dances and laugh out loud.
00:31The hippo-hop.
00:32By Christine Loomis.
00:33Illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott.
00:36For Susan and Paul musically inclined animal lovers.
00:40C.L.
00:41For Becky Wendy and Willie.
00:42N.B.W.
00:43There's a place the animals like to go.
00:46Where the palm trees sway and the breezes blow.
00:48When daylight fades and the workers stop.
00:51They put on shades for the hippo-hop.
00:53They slide.
00:54They glide.
00:55They ride on top.
01:08The hippo-hop.
01:09Live music punched to the hippening happening hippo-hop.
01:13Listens to the elephants start to wail on the slide trombone.
01:16Up and down the scale.
01:17The apes play bass and a crocodile croons with an all-girl band of blue baboons.
01:22They sing.
01:23They wing.
01:24They swing that tune at the hippo-hop by the light of the moon.
01:27Zebras get jamming on the ivory keys.
01:30Monkeys bang congas in the coconut trees.
01:32The sound gets heat when the tapers tap.
01:35Snakes keep the beat while the rhinos rap.
01:37They stay.
01:38They sway.
01:39They play that bop and the crowd goes wild at the hippo-hop.
01:42Gorilla does splits on the hippo-hop floor.
01:45The wildebeest twists with the brown-eyed boar.
01:48Four lemurs lindy.
01:49An iguana jives.
01:50A mole named Mindy gives a frog high fives.
01:53They dip.
01:54They sip.
01:55They tip the toad at the hippo-hop down Soursop Road.
01:58With yaks on sacks the tempo slows.
02:01Giraffes dance closer in their polka-dot hoes.
02:04The baboon girls belt the beastly blues.
02:06And sloths with curls slip off their shoes.
02:09They tap.
02:10They snap.
02:11They clap then stop.
02:12They leave by twos from the hippo-hop.
02:15The players pack up their horns and snares.
02:17Hippopotami recline in green deckchairs.
02:20Capey bear is clean.
02:21They shine and mop.
02:22Another night ends at the hippo-hop.
02:25They hose.
02:26They close.
02:27They doze.
02:28And then the hippo closed.
02:29The hippo-hop will open again.
02:30The hippo-hop.
02:31Christine Loomis is the author of One Cow Coughs, a counting book for the Sick and Miserable
02:36Witch School Library Journal described as just what the doctor ordered for those endlessly
02:40boring sick-in-bed days.
02:42She lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband and their three children.
02:46Nadine Bernard Westcott has illustrated many books for children.
02:50She lives in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
02:52The end.