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1. Hippos in the Wild
 
$14.50
2. Wild Africa - Hippos
3. The Call of the Wild (Hippo Classics)
 
4. Hippos in the Wild
 
5. Hippo (Animals in the Wild)
$22.28
6. Hippos (All About Wild Animals)
 
7. PM Turquoise Animal Facts Animals
 
$18.49
8. Hippos (Wild Wild World)
9. Hippos (In the Wild)
 
$4.99
10. Wild Baby Animal - Hippo (May
 
11. PM Animal Facts: Animals in the
$11.04
12. Hippos (PM Animal Facts: Animals
$6.91
13. Little Hippopotamuses (Born to
14. Hippos (Worldlife Library)
$6.71
15. Hush, Hush!
 
16. Wild Baby
$6.69
17. A Hippopotamus Grows Up (Wild
$23.93
18. Rudy the Rhinoceros (Wild Animal
$14.99
19. A Rhinoceros Grows Up (Wild Animals)
 
20. Wild Island

1. Hippos in the Wild
by Cliff Moon
 Hardcover: 57 Pages (1985-06-30)

Isbn: 0850785456
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2. Wild Africa - Hippos
by Melissa Cole
 Hardcover: 24 Pages (2002-09-18)
list price: US$21.20 -- used & new: US$14.50
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Asin: 1567116353
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Examines the life of the hippopotamus, pointing out differences between the two remaining species and the impact humans have had, and continue to have, on these African mammals. ... Read more


3. The Call of the Wild (Hippo Classics)
by Jack London
Paperback: 128 Pages (1992-06-19)

Isbn: 0590551132
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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4-0 out of 5 stars Not just for kids: robust, Conan-like over-the-top prose mythology (with dogs)
On the one hand these stories are absurd, investing sled dogs and their drivers with godlike qualities. The Alaskan wilderness is timeless, endless, mythic. The prose becomes hugely purple: for example, a scrap between a couple of dogs is treated as a titanic battle. But this very effusiveness is what lifts the stories from the banal - if you're prepared to run with the mythology, there's some wonderfully heroic stuff here in the vein of Conan, where men are real men, and dogs are personifications of wild primordial urges. Buck isn't a dog, he's all dogs, he's all dogs throughout history.He's also The Warrior, The Companion, The Leader, and The Hunter.

I'm not saying it's not rough out in those extreme conditions, or that there isn't a world of contrast between soft city living and harsh tundra survival, but London goes wonderfully over the top with this:
"...This first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and terrible death. It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence. It was all well enough in the Southland, under the law of love and fellowship, to respect private property and personal feelings. But in the Northland, under the law of club and fang, whoso took such things into account was a fool, and insofar as he observed them he would fail to prosper..."

The book isn't entirely composed of this macho faux-philosophy (cf. `Starship Troopers' and the execrable `Gor' novels), but it underpins the stories. The final story, `That Spot' (this edition adds a couple of his later dog stories) is quite consciously a `tall' one, but, whether or not he took himself seriously, London plays the others with a straight bat. There is an admiration for an unforgiving landscape where weakness cannot be hidden, and while there is some arrogance in an author creating the urbanely regal writer of `Brown Wolf' (the other added story), it is a nice, hopefully self-deprecating moment when the down-to-earth, inarticulate frontiersman, challenged on a point of law by the complacent sophisticate,
"...carefully looked the poet up and down as though measuring the strength of his slenderness.
The Klondiker's face took on a contemptuous expression as he said finally, 'I reckon there's nothin' in sight to prevent me takin' the dog right here an' now.'..."
We can see a tension from London's own colourful life. On the one hand he's proud (and massively relieved) to have used his intelligence and writing skills to escape the stultifying drudgery of factory work, and the massive depredation and ordeal of prospecting in Alaska (his health appears to have been permanently damaged from his year nearly starving in the frozen North). On the other he's contemptuous of soft living, with Buck as his model only discovering his true noble self through escaping luxury and living a violent, harsh, independent, hard-working life.

The guy himself was an interesting personality, a bit of a celebrity in his time. Like Herman Melville and Robert Lewis Stevenson, some of the larger than life incidents are actually based on pretty extreme real life experiences. Is he just exaggerating characters and experiences to make a good yarn, or is there some real insight in describing how conditions shape morality? I think he's pushing things, at times almost comically, too far (I mean, would you really entitle a chapter `The Dominant Primordial Beast' without being mock heroic?) - but it adds sinew and poetry to what otherwise could merely be some animal stories. This, thank goodness, is far more Kipling than Disney (and whoever sucked all the potency out of `The Jungle Book' by combining those two should have been shot). Moreover the individual stories that make up the book both stand alone and integrate effectively. Actually, upon reflection, the whole movement of the book, introduction, progress and conclusion, is one of the most satisfying I've come across.

By the way, I probably never would have read this book except for a pretty bizarre coincidence. My wife had left a few `kids' books on our floor that she found in the back of a church cupboard or something - she was going to donate them to the Salvos. I wouldn't have even particularly noticed except the name `Jack London' leapt out at me because the night before I'd just read `The Death Artist', a short story by Alexander Jablokov. It opened with a vignette of a cold northern death, highlighting the depth of relationship between a tough as nails wilderness man and his dog - `Jack London'. Expecting something sentimentally `Lassie' flavoured, I flicked open this book by an author with that same name and read:
"...All that stirring of old instincts which at stated periods drives men out from the sounding cities to forest and plain to kill things by chemically propelled leaden pellets, the blood lust, the joy of the kill - all this was Buck's, only it was infinitely more intimate. He was ranging at the head of the pack, running the wild thing down, the living meat, to kill with his own teeth, and wash his muzzle to the eyes in warm blood.
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad on a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight. He was sounding the deeps of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each muscle, joint and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move..."
Kids' book? (Just glanced at a few amazon reviews - whoever thought this was aimed primarily at children? Even my edition is from the `illustrated junior library' - a misleading title. Sure the black and white depictions are in some sense childish, and people gushing about how `true' it is are not speaking from experience but imagination - but the myth is what's so engaging. Adults should be more aware of this: I'm not sure how ideal it is for kids to utterly embrace it). Whatever, it got me in and I'm glad to have come across the engaging and unique voice I found here. I'm sure the Jablokov's story was part homage, and I suspect he would be pleased to know that his reference put another reader onto London. Weird as that in the 24 hours that book was in my room I became aware of that name for the first time from another source.

4-0 out of 5 stars My 8th Grade Class' Review
I liked this book because it was very descriptive and interesting. I would recommend that only children of twelve years and older read this book. It is filled with much violence, blood, gore and some brief language (in French). The author did a great job of making you not want to put it down. The main character, Buck, learns some valuable lessons that stay with him. You can relate to Buck because he makes his emotions so great. - M.C.

This was a short and sorrowful book. I liked it but I would not recommend it to readers under twelve, or if you are depressed. It's about a Saint Bernard cross-breed who is dognapped and forced to be a sled dog in Alaska. It is now his job to survive. I liked it because of its good description and historical accuracy. Don't read it if you dislike blood, fighting or dogs being abused. - D.J.

"The Call of the Wild" is very well written by the author, Jack London, who draws you into Buck's adventure. I enjoyed this book very much, not just because of Jack London's amazing writing, but because Buck (the dog) shows us human greed and how the love of a man could tear his world in half. Of course, Buck was created by London, but London gave Buck emotions and feelings any human can relate to. "The Call of the Wild" is a great book to relax and read. This book is highly recommended for 12 years of age and up because of violence and gore. - M.L.

This book is a great book. It's about lots of different dogs Buck (the main character) meets. There are many deaths and lots of love and death situations. Some dogs get killed in this book, because they don't have the will to go on. I liked this book a lot, except for the deaths. I'd recommend it for 13 years and over. - J.T.

3-0 out of 5 stars literature book
The book is itself is ok, instructive and interesting and short. ideal for mu daughther, but unfortunately the book was not received in the best conditions; 5 pages were cut(tear)

5-0 out of 5 stars Excellent book. The annotations are so cool!
It is a wonderful story about a particular dog's life and struggles. The annotations discuss the influences on London, including what dog he based Buck on. There are real pictures showing places where London travelled, and they pleasantly fill out what is already a great read.

5-0 out of 5 stars Perfect!
I own a log home in the North Georgia mountains, which I named "Call of the Wild".We don't actually have wolves here, but we do have lots of other wild animals.I wanted a name that would relate to wolves, as I've always loved pictures of them and have many pictures of wolves in my home. I commissioned a local artist to paint a canvas portraying the essence of "Call of the Wild" and she paintd the picture from the new dust jacket.So, of course, I wanted the book to display near the painting.As I said, it's PERFECT!

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4. Hippos in the Wild
by Jody Sullivan Rake
 Hardcover: Pages (2010-01-01)

Asin: B0042LP9K4
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5. Hippo (Animals in the Wild)
by Mary Hoffman
 Paperback: Pages (1985-06)
list price: US$3.95
Isbn: 0811468771
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Describes the life cycle and natural environment of the hippopotamus with emphasis on its struggle for survival. ... Read more


6. Hippos (All About Wild Animals)
Library Binding: 32 Pages (2004-01)
list price: US$26.00 -- used & new: US$22.28
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Asin: 0836841182
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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5-0 out of 5 stars great hippo fact book
I bought this for a lesson on hippos with my kids as most hippo books I found are fiction. This is a great book for facts about them and I have now bought several in the series as well as the farm series. ... Read more


7. PM Turquoise Animal Facts Animals in the Wild Hippos (X6): Turquoise Level (Progress with Meaning)
by Beverley Randell
 Paperback: Pages (2000-02-11)

Isbn: 017402603X
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8. Hippos (Wild Wild World)
by Tanya Stone
 Hardcover: 24 Pages (2004-07)
list price: US$23.70 -- used & new: US$18.49
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Asin: 1567118151
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9. Hippos (In the Wild)
by Patricia Kendell
Paperback: 32 Pages (2004-05-13)
list price: US$12.40
Isbn: 0750242302
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This lovely new title looks at the lives of hippos - from their birth to growing up, how they feed, grow, hunt, rest, and clean. Glorious, large colour photographs show the hippo at every stage of its life. Simple, engaging text allows young readers to understand a hippo's life. There is also information about the threats that hippos face in the wild and how we can help them to survive in the future. ... Read more


10. Wild Baby Animal - Hippo (May 2009) (Series 4, Issue 5)
by National Wildlife Federation
 Paperback: Pages (2009)
-- used & new: US$4.99
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Asin: B003EAYL6C
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11. PM Animal Facts: Animals in the Wild - Hippos
by Beverley Randell
 Paperback: Pages (2000-02-11)

Isbn: 1869611020
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12. Hippos (PM Animal Facts: Animals in the Wild)
by Beverley Randell
Paperback: 17 Pages (1998-02)
list price: US$11.13 -- used & new: US$11.04
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Asin: 0763523070
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13. Little Hippopotamuses (Born to Be Wild)
by Colette Barbe-julien
Library Binding: 24 Pages (2005-07)
list price: US$23.00 -- used & new: US$6.91
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Asin: 0836847369
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14. Hippos (Worldlife Library)
by Glenn Feldhake
Paperback: 60 Pages (2005-10-15)

Isbn: 1841072869
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15. Hush, Hush!
by Margaret Wild
Hardcover: 24 Pages (2010-07-09)
list price: US$14.99 -- used & new: US$6.71
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Asin: 1921272864
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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In this endearing companion to Kiss, Kiss!, Baby Hippo finds that taking a walk is sleepy work.
 
When Baby Hippo can’t sleep he goes for a wander through the reeds, along the bog, over the rocks, and through the willowy, wavy grass. On the way he discovers that all the animal moms and dads are hushing their babies to sleep. The gentle and rhythmic sounds will entertain, entrance, and, most importantly, promote sleep in toddlers everywhere.
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4-0 out of 5 stars A Walk Through The Reeds To Create A Sleepy Hush!
Baby Hippo couldn't sleep; he was too awake and too full of energy for sleep. Baby Hippo played and rolled about, he wriggled and moved, and still he was too full of energy for sleep. Baby Hippo turned upside down and stood on his head, he waggled his legs and moved them about in the air, and still he was too full of energy for sleep.

It was time for Baby Hippo to sleep; his mum was calling him to sleep. But Baby Hippo was not sleepy, so he decided to take a walk instead. He trotted through reeds, mud, rocks, grass and trees. Along the way Baby Hippo meet with all kinds of baby animals, all with their mums, being called to sleep. Baby Hippo wanted his mum, he wanted to go to sleep.

Hush, Hush! is enchanting and warm. Baby Hippo's walk is highlighted by gorgeous and delightful illustrations that compliment its light and musical narrative. It's a lovely story of mothers and their babies, for mothers and their babies. A story both whimsical and sincere that will be well loved. ... Read more


16. Wild Baby
by Barbro Lindgren
 Paperback: 32 Pages (1985-08-22)

Isbn: 0590704095
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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5-0 out of 5 stars A Classic!
This is my all time favorite book! My children are grown and I'm saving my copy for grandchildren. This story is about a wildly hilarious little boy named Ben who keeps adults as well as children entertained. I continue to search for it to come back into print each time I look for a book to give to a child. I have memorized every line and it still brings laughter to my soul!

5-0 out of 5 stars Wild Baby Ben
If I could give this book 10 stars I would, but 5 is the most we're allowed to give for this review.My son, Ben, received this book as a gift when he was born and I must have read it to him at least 500 times.It's the cutest, most fun book to read.The predicaments that Baby Ben gets into are wonderfully hilarious and of course he always ends up safe!I love this book so much and will always hang onto it.My baby Ben is now almost 20 years old!

5-0 out of 5 stars Love "The Wild Baby"
I LOVE this book.I got it at a garage sale when my son was small, maybe 3 or 4.... We loved the adventures of the wild baby.Now that my son is 16, I plan to hang on to my copy for grandkids!:)

5-0 out of 5 stars Delightful!
Cute and funny and memorable rhyme, with imaginative illustrations on fine paper.One of the best kids books we had when my children were little.I want to buy it for a friend's children, and will not part with my copies! ... Read more


17. A Hippopotamus Grows Up (Wild Animals)
by Anastasia Suen
Library Binding: 24 Pages (2005-07-18)
list price: US$25.99 -- used & new: US$6.69
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Asin: 1404809880
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Describes the development of a hippopotamus from infancy to adulthood, as he grows up in Africa. ... Read more


18. Rudy the Rhinoceros (Wild Animal Families)
by Jan Latta
Library Binding: 24 Pages (2007-01-12)
list price: US$24.00 -- used & new: US$23.93
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Asin: 0836877713
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19. A Rhinoceros Grows Up (Wild Animals)
by Anastasia Suen
Library Binding: 24 Pages (2005-07-30)
list price: US$25.99 -- used & new: US$14.99
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Asin: 1404809864
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Describes the development of a rhinoceros from infancy to adulthood, as she grows up in Africa. ... Read more


20. Wild Island
by Anita Bean
 Paperback: 127 Pages (2004)

Isbn: 0439954282
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