Anyone know this book?

September 24, 2008 8:37 PM

Trying to find/remember a childrens book from my childhood (I'm 33) in which there were either hippos or elephants having a run-in with an evil sultan. I think the animals got shoved into a tarpit or something - a bit intense....
posted by H. Roark to writing & language (3 comments total)

not a book, to my knowledge, but the plot sounds an awful lot like hugo the hippo, a movie that kind of scarred me for life (i saw it during a daycare field trip to the movies, some time between 1986 and 1989).
posted by wreckingball at 9:02 PM on September 24, 2008

Amazing, thats totally it and here it is with complete visual recollection of the cover:

http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-SCHOLASTIC-HUGO-THE-HIPPO_W0QQitemZ220250809139QQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116

thanks!
posted by H. Roark at 9:06 PM on September 24, 2008

Just for reference and the googlers, this also sounds a bit like Babar the Elephant. Came to Europe, returned to bring cvilization to the elpahant kingdom, which he came to rule, and he fought a war with the rhinoceros Lord Rataxes in one of the later books. No tarpits, though.
posted by dhartung at 12:04 AM on September 25, 2008