The Hoppleplop

Would you like to see a Hoppleplop? Well, just open the door and come inside. But quietly now …

Addressing the reader directly, the writer invites us into his house in search of an elusive Hoppleplop. As each door is opened to reveal a strange, new creature dwelling in this ‘normal’ house, the reader begins to build a mental image of the Hoppleplop, with its big feet, big bum, long nose and even longer ears.

But nothing is quite as it seems.

Written by Kyle Mewburn and illustrated by Deborah Hinde

Originally published in 2004 by Scholastic NZ, The Hoppleplop is back in this fully revised and extended Creators’ edition. It has a fresh new look from front cover to back. Plus bonus pages with insights into the book’s creation.

$19.99 incl. GST

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Description

Reading ages: 2-5 years

There’s also a hardcover edition of The Hoppleplop.

Reviews

Fern Anderson – Swings and Roundabouts ~ “The Hoppleplop is perfect for the older pre-schooler and for the first few years of school. It is a perfect resource to increase a child’s level of reading comprehension with the range of language complexity and how it ties between the story and picture.”

John McKenzie ~ “In this delightful fantasy designed to stimulate the imagination, careful examination of the final illustration reveals that all is not what it seems. The ironic relationship between image and narrative comes to the fore as we learn to doubt the voice of the narrator and the concept of normality! The illustrator has precisely captured this play on expectations. The cottage gardens are suggestive of utopia. Butterflies flutter and a dog lazily sleeps on a lounge chair. But there are unsettling details as we begin to read the illustrations: caterpillar handles, mushrooms growing through the floors and (surprise) a magazine entitled Saurian Way! That’s just the beginning … This is a good introduction for the middle school child to begin to acquire new skills in decoding picture books using such ideas as intertextuality, irony and double coding. Highly recommended.”

Written by Kyle Mewburn who has written lots of books for kids. Some of her picture books – like Old Hu-hu, Kiss! Kiss! Yuck! Yuck! and Melu – have even won awards. Originally from Brisbane, Kyle lives in a self-built house with a grass roof in Millers Flat in Central Otago. The Hoppleplop was Kyle’s first picture book.

Kiwi author and illustrator Deborah Hinde Deborah Hinde

Find out more about award-winning illustrator Deborah Hinde by visiting her author-illustrator page.

Additional information

Weight 200 g
Dimensions 26.5 × 21.7 × .5 cm
Format

Paperback edition

First published

2016

ISBN

9780473355296

Page count

32

Published by

PictureBook Publshing

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