When I Woke Up I Was a Hippopotamus

Author(s): Tom MacRae

Picture Books

"When I woke up I was a hippopotamus. Yawning in the morning, I raised up my sleepy head, Then took one look out of the window and got straight back into bed." This title features a small boy's fantasies about being different creatures that get him into all sorts of mischief!

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"Ross Collins' striking illustrations combine a Winnie-the-Pooh cuddle factor with a dark imagination reminiscent of Tenniel's drawings for Alice."
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"Tom MacRae is such a talented and sensitive writer. I love this book. I only wish he'd written it thirty years earlier than I could have loved it as a child."
--Matthew Cain, Culture Editor, "Channel 4 News"

Ross Collins graduated from the Glasgow School of Art with a First in Illustration. In the same year he won the Macmillan Children's Book Prize. He now has over eighty titles to his name including Busy Night which won the White Raven Award and Billy Monster's Daymare which won the Royal Mail Book Award. He lives in Glasgow. Tom MacRae is best known as a BAFTA-winning scriptwriter for television: his work has been shown on both Channel 4 and BBC2. He has recently written several episodes for the new series of both Doctor Who and Miss Marple. His first book for children, The Opposite, was published by Andersen Press in 2006, and his second Baby Pie in 2009.

General Fields

  • : 9781849393591
  • : Andersen Press Ltd
  • : Andersen Press Ltd
  • : 0.208
  • : 01 March 2012
  • : 280mm X 240mm X 4mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 01 June 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Tom MacRae
  • : Paperback
  • : 5-Dec
  • : Ross Collins
  • : 823.92
  • : 3 - 5 years
  • : 32
  • : chiefly col. Illustrations