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That’s not Thabi, That’s a hippopotamus
Jon Keevy
CC BY 4.0Credits & Licence
Originally published by Book Dash. Writer: Jon Keevy. Illustrator: Mbongeni Fongoqa. Designer: Roulé le Roux. Editor: Carla Lever.
Cover resized and converted to WebP; artwork unchanged. Suitabook’s AI guidance is a separate assessment.
Original Book on Book Dash: That’s not Thabi, That’s a hippopotamus (opens in a new tab)- Reading
- Pause at each new setting and invite the reader to predict where Thabi might be. Let them point out picture details before reading the repeated lines aloud together.
- Themes
- Searching for Thabi: Lucy cannot find Thabi and encounters a hippo in several places before Thabi emerges from inside it. The search is presented as a comic situation, but the story does not establish a broader message about sibling responsibility or separation.
- Worth knowing
- Lucy looks concerned when she first cannot find Thabi, but the story soon becomes playful. The seesaw scene shows Lucy lifted into the air; no injury or lasting distress is shown.