Fiona Helps a Friend (A Fiona the Hippo Book)

Fiona the famous Hippo, has her own books and this one is all about helping a friend. When Fiona realizes that she has not heard her friend, Matilda the Kookaburra's laugh all day, she knows something must be making her sad. Matilda gets the other zoo animals together to ask them to help cheer her up. They tried all kinds of things to make her laugh, but nothing. Then they found a box that said "Lost & Found" full of things. They dressed up and laughed at themselves. They headed back over the Matilda and when she put on something from the box, she finally got her laugh back. This was a great story about friendship, caring, imagination and joy. We also talked a bit about animals, zoos, keeping away from wild animals etc. I also found a video made by the Cincinnati Zoo with one of their zookeepers reading the story and we listened to it as well. The noise of the kookaburra laugh at the end was great and the kids listened to it several times. The illustrations were wonderful. Lots of colour, action and emotion were portrayed in the humorous pictures. I recommend this book to families and schools to share about friendship and caring. The publishers generously provided me with a copy of this book upon request. The rating and opinions shared are my own.

The storyline is confusing so I make up my own words. The paper cover got ripped off immedialty which was fine with me. The book fell apart when I left it in the sun but all those things are my fault. The book is awesome and WE LOVE FIONA!!! Will buy more books about FIONA in the future! Cincinnati Zoo needs to write her Birth story book!!1

I bought the book for our baby granddaughter. Fiona is an Ohio treasure.

Bought for myself -age 69. Loved it, especially the pictures!

The storyline is lacking in a way the other books in these series. The other books are wonderful and have nice little lessons, this one has a lesson although it isn't as original or well written. I feel like they were due for the next installment in a series and pushed for another book quickly instead of taking time and putting out another wonderful book. I buy all of these for my son, starting with the first when he was in NICU so I have an emotional attachment to the series and was disappointed greatly in the lacking story. It's the only one my son doesn't ask to be read to him.

Adorable pictures and sweet story. My grandsons love it!!

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My grandchildren love the Fiona books. They have so much fun naming all the animals. The artwork is truly fantastic!

I bought this book for a co-workers little girl. The co-worker is originally from Cincinnati and she talked about Fiona and how much she enjoyed seeing articles about her. I've bought two Fiona books and they are very cute, have a great story and so uplifting and a happy story. would recommend to anyone that loves animals and has small children.

Love all Fiona books, the artist is amazing!