TY - BOOK AU - Mahy,Margaret AU - Kellogg,Steven TI - The boy who was followed home SN - 9780143504375 U1 - NZ823.2 22 PY - 2010/// CY - North Shore, N.Z. PB - Puffin KW - Hippopotamus KW - Children's picture books KW - Magic KW - Witches KW - Picture books for children KW - Children's stories, New Zealand N1 - Picture story book for children; Previously published: London : Puffin Books, 1992; "A Margaret Mahy classic"--Cover N2 - 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. Robert's desperate father contacts a witch, who gives Robert a pill to make him unattractive to hippos. Sadly for Robert's parents, the hippos vanish, only to replaced by a trail of giraffes. Suggested level: junior, primary ER -