George and Martha, those incomparable hippos, will delight readers of all ages in these five funny, warm, and wonderful stories by the illustrator of Miss Nelson is Missing! and The Stupids Step Out. James Marshall's five stories about two great friends are really five mini-farces in which the dignity and the bulk of the hippos is in contrast with the ludicrousness of their situations.....The secret of Mr Marshall's sucess lies not just in the freshness of his sense of the ridiculous, but in the carefulness of his control and editorial judgment. Fun reading for children ages 4-7
