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Get it between 2025-06-26 to 2025-07-03. Additional 3 business days for provincial shipping.
The Tale of Hodgepodge is the perfect story for these times: It's a laugh-filled, action-packed, uplifting novel for kids 9-12 about a young hippo who has to find his way in a world where everything has gone wrong. (ALL PROFITS from The Tale of Hodgepodge are donated to food scarcity programs for families severely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.) Hodgepodge the hippo was mysteriously abandoned in the jungle at birth … found and raised by elephants … and later bullied and banished by Scab the camel and the other animals. Now the young hippo has to make a terrifying journey back through the jungle to find his original mother and find out why she left him—with a wise-cracking, poetry-spouting parrot for his guide. He'll have to face a gang of outraged orangutans, a giant boa constrictor and much more. But the most important thing he'll have to face is his own fear. The Tale of Hodgepodge is about finding courage, friendship, self-confidence and joy--in the jungle, of all places. It’s a story about what can go right even when everything goes wrong.