Fiona's friends

John Hutton

Book - 2018

Fiona, was born six weeks before her due date on January 24, 2017. She was too small and weak to stand and nurse from her mother, Bibi, so caregivers and vet staff stepped in to provide critical care. With help from #TeamFiona, the premature hippo grew into a healthy hippo and an amazing ambassador for her species. Fiona's Cincinnati Zoo friends are also ambassadors. Some of the species represented in this book, like black rhinos and Malayan tigers, are critically endangered. There is hope for them, but people must care enough to want to save them. Seeing amazing creatures like these at a zoo can inspire that kind of powerful connection and make our planet a better place.

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Subjects
Genres
Board books
Published
[Cincinnati, Ohio] : Blue Manatee Press [2018]
Language
English
Corporate Author
Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden
Main Author
John Hutton (author)
Corporate Author
Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden (-)
Item Description
On board pages.
Title from cover.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 15 cm
ISBN
9781936669684
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

A companion to Fiona's Feelings, this board book introduces 10 animals that reside at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden with the famed Fiona: "Fiona the hippo loves to play. Let's meet some of her friends today!" Featuring photographs of each animal, Hutton offers playful, rhyming descriptions: "Elle the gorilla munches a snack. Winsol the aardvark sleeps on his back." Readers will gain a sense of the many different animals and habitats at the zoo. Hutton doesn't offer information about the animals beyond a back-cover description of Fiona's birth and after-care, but the vibrant photos of baby animals, bookended by images of Fiona herself, offer much to love: "Fiona and friends are love-ly, it's true. They're all very special, just like you!" Ages up to 3. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Review by Kirkus Book Review

Fiona, the photogenic baby hippo, returns with a menagerie of baby animal friends.Although Fiona's fabulous face graces only the cover and three interior pages of this compact, sturdy board book, the pulchritudinous pachyderm's eponymous friends provide plenty of interest for animal-loving tots and toddlers. Our hippo heroine's youthful playmates represent 10 different species and include a baby rhinoceros, a red panda, a takin (a Himalayan gnu goat), a manatee, a giraffe, a flamingo, an aardvark, a tiger, a cheetah, and a gorilla. As in Fiona's previous board-book outing, Fiona's Feelings,the photographs from the Cincinnati Zoo Botanical Garden's collection are lovingly curated and thoroughly charming. The text is simple, with each animal's name and species in one line of a rhymed couplet: "Fiona the hippo loves to play. / Let's meet some of her friends today! // Kendi the rhino, brave and strong. / Cora the giraffe, twisty and long." It's not Shakespeare, but it should delight youngsters by capitalizing on their natural fascination with exotic fauna. While Fiona is clearly a star in her own right, the other animal babies in this volume are equally irresistible. Few sights can compete with a hairless, newborn aardvark sleeping peacefully against its mother's belly.A winning and wonderful way to foster a child's fascination for wildlife. (Board book. 6 mos.-3) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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