Ernie the Easter Hippopotamus

by Glenn Logan Reitze, Glenn Logan Reitze (Illustrator)

Overview

From a Review in "Recommended Children's Books"

Ernie the Easter Hippopotamus, by Glenn Logan Reitze, is a beautiful story of a young hippopotamus who has a curious ability to make "naturally hard-boiled," brightly colored eggs. This gets the other hippos angry, and so he leaves - eventually swimming the Atlantic Ocean to New Jersey! There he finds happiness producing brightly colored eggs that are mistakenly credited to the "Easter Bunny." This is an odd tall tale, but beautifully written, and even more beautifully illustrated with more than 50 (yes, 50) pages of paintings, many of African animals such as a zebra, a crocodile, a rhinoceros, etc. I would put it up with the favorite books of my own childhood that gently seek to teach profound lessons beneath a very funny story.

-- Ann Bogenhagen in "Recommended Children's Books" on Prof. Edward Tufte's Forum on the Web (2007).

From a review by the Strand Bookstore website:

"Ernie is an adorable hippopotamus. Come along on this lavishly illustrated Easter tale that has a touching message about following dreams and overcoming obstacles. With interesting information about real hippopotamuses, this story will be a pleasure for the whole family."

From a review on the Barnes & Noble website:

You'll fall in love with the plucky hippo who just wants to lay colored eggs to make people happy. The drawings are gorgeous, with very believable African animals. My kids love the book!"

-- Review by Gail Baume

From a review on the Amazon.com website:

[This is] one of my favorite children's books and a wonderful contribution to modern mythologies. Ernie is a charming and magical story giving a great new explanation for Easter traditions. Ernie the Easter hippo should go down in history as one of the best mythological creatures to make their home in New Jersey.

-- Ordeiberon on Amazon.com

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162698388
Publisher:	North American International / Fine Art Editions
Publication date:	08/08/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Glenn Logan Reitze is the father of a son and four daughters, some of whom are still home, and the others grown and on their own. Glenn was born and raised in New Jersey near the great "Meadows" wetlands that are featured in this book, and now lives happily with his family in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, cradled among its western mountains. As a young man, he worked as a newspaper reporter and editor in both the U.S. and Mexico, and later became a neighborhood attorney in Washington, D.C., and then a Library of Congress Researcher/Editor in world law, where he was highly instrumental in designing and founding the Global Legal Information Network. He has written widely, and is also known as a poet, with about 150 poems published to date.