White Ravens’99/South Africa/78465
Camp, Lindsay (text) 
 Coplans, Peta (illus.)
 Hippo’s River Café
 Cape Town/London: 
 Tafelberg/Andersen Press, 1998. [26pp] 
 ISBN 0-624-03691-X
 Laughing - Friendship - Tolerance
 Cheetah and Hippopotamus are best friends and love to laugh over Cheetah’s corny jokes. But Cheetah,
 who is rather vain and lazy, has no interest in helping Hippopotamus build his riverside café and sulks
 away while Hippopotamus works himself to exhaustion. When the café nearly fails due to Hippopotamus’
 bad temper, they find the perfect solution for a joint venture. The naive, stylized pencil and watercolor
 illustrations for this animal fantasy tale capture the dynamic quality of the text. Camp is an advertising
 copywriter in England and Coplans an international illustrator living in Cape Town. (4+)

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