The boy who was followed home

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"The Boy Who Was Followed Home" made me laugh out loud and was definitely a book that would be perfect for storytime. I knew it would The boy who was followed home book special when it was illustrated by my hero Steven Kellogg and the ending couldn't have been more perfect!/5.

out of 5 stars The Boy Who was Followed Home. Reviewed in the United States on September 6, Verified Purchase. This was one of my children's favorite books. My son is now a kindergarten teacher and I send him books for his classroom since he teaches at an inner city school with limited funding.

It is now a favorite of his students/5(15). Young Robert's delight in being followed home by a hippopotamus turns to chagrin as more and more of the beasts crowd in. Get this from a library. The boy who was followed home. [Margaret Mahy; Steven Kellogg] -- A witch's pill is supposed to cure Robert of the hippopotami who daily follow him home from school--but there is one disadvantage to the treatment.

Robert, "an ordinary boy," doesn't really mind being followed home every day by hippopotami, but after 27 of them have piled up in their goldfish pond, his parents call in a witch to put a hippo-repellent spell on Robert. It works, and when Robert leaves school the next day "there wasn't a hippo in sight"—and only Kellogg's sunset scene reveals that instead, a parade of giraffes is following.

Get this from a library. The boy who was followed home. [Margaret Mahy; Steven Kellogg] -- 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.

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Buy The Boy Who Was Followed Home by Margaret Mahy online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 10 editions - starting at $ Shop Range: $ - $ A boy gets followed home by an unsuspected animal, a Hippo.

The boy was fine with it because hippos were his favorite, until more and more hippos followed him home. His father eventually got a magic pill to stop the hippos from following, but it attracted a different animal instead.4/5(7).

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A silly story about a boy who attracts hippos - more every day. His parents hire a witch to rid him of his hippo magnetism.

Barnes & Noble Press. Publish your book 4/5(1). A lovely story about a boy who is followed home by a hippo. I remember reading it to my son and daughter back in the 80s. They loved it then and my grandson loves it now. Wish they'd reprint it. Read more. One person found this helpful.

Helpful. Comment Report abuse.5/5(11). What other book might you compare The Boy Who Followed Ripley to and why. Denise Mina's Deception - the amount of self-deception by a point of view character is comparable. Although more happens in Mina's book.

In the Ripley series it is just Tom Ripley, Tom Ripley, Tom Ripley. In striving to enrich the lives of all readers, TeachingBooks supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read. Buy a cheap copy of The Boy Who Followed Ripley book by Patricia Highsmith.

Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past who will stop at nothing.—Frank RichNow part of American film and Free shipping over $Cited by: 6.

Buy The Boy Who Was Followed Home by Mahy, Margaret () Paperback by (ISBN:) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.5/5(11). An enchanting tale by Margaret Mahy about a small, ordinary boy who is followed home by a most extraordinary animal – and that is just the beginning.

Margaret Mahy's classic story about a boy who brings home a hippopotamus quite by accident, illustrated by Steven Kellogg. 'What on earth is that in the goldfish pool?' asked Robert's father.

Some change the way you breathe. This book will leave you breathless. This is Paul Griffin's best book yet—and that's really saying something." —Patricia McCormick, author of National Book Award Finalist Sold "When Friendship Followed Me Home is both a beautiful book, and an honest book; it is, in fact, beautiful because it is honest.

We /5(7). The Talented Mr. Ripley was grand. The sequels were fine. But this new psychosuspense for expatriate thief-hero Tom Ripley is mostly leaden; you keep waiting for the dark Highsmith magic to rise up—it never does.

Near his country home outside Paris, Ripley meets and befriends a year-old American boy. And when some nasty types seem to be after the lad, he moves in with the Ripleys and soon.The boy who was followed home by Margaret Mahy,F.

Watts edition, in EnglishPages:   Brydie Walker Bain reading 'The Boy Who Was Followed Home' by Margaret Mahy. A must for hippo lovers everywhere!