There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake

Australia

Film Australian animation

Hazel Edwards wrote the award winning “Hippo” book with the help of her children. Featuring Deborah Niland’s colourful and lively illustrations, the story has won world wide acclaim and has been translated into many languages including Japanese and Braille. The story centres around the lovable and lively “Hippo”, who can do anything especially the things you are not allowed to do!

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Credits

production company

Box Hill College of Technical and Further Education

Duration

00:09:00:00

Production places
Australia

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

324022

Language

English

Subject categories

Adaptations

Animation

Animation → Animated films - Australia

Childrens Films

Literature → Children's literature - Film and video adaptations

Short films

Short films → Short films - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Collected

2 times

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