Henrietta the hippo seeks to find a new home when the other hippos laugh at her hair.
Henrietta is hairy and all the other hippos laugh at her. So she resolves to find a new home. This is a picture book that is based on the award winning "64 Zoo Lane" animation series.
Lucy has some very strange neighbors with horns, humps, tails, and trunks. That's because Lucy lives next door to the zoo! Every night, she climbs down the long neck of Georgina the Giraffe and listens to one of them tell her a story. Henrietta is hairy and all the other hippos laugh at her. "Henrietta's hairy, Henrietta's hairy!" they sing all day long. Henrietta is unhappy and wants to go where no one laughs at her. So she leaves the safety of the Zambam river and goes in search of a new home. She travels to the desert but it's too hot to the jungle but it's too scary and to the mountains but they're too steep. But when Snip Snip the bird gives her a trendy new hairdo, Henrietta returns home looking like a princess until she goes swimming. Will the other hippos accept her for who she really is?
An grew up in Belgium. As a child she spent a lot of time drawing and writing and looking after successive generations of guinea-pigs. She moved to London in 1989 to study animation at the Royal College of Art. She has a very successful career as an animator. Her graduation film Little Wolf has won many international awards including Best Film at Annecy 1993. Her new animation series 64 Zoo Lane has been broadcast on BBC1 and BBC2. It's currently showing on CBeebies. An lives in Harrow with her husband and their two children.
