The Twenty-seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race
(Paperback, 2nd edition)
Publishing Details
The Twenty-seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race
By (Author) Morris Lurie
Penguin Random House Australia
Puffin
1st June 1989
2nd edition
Australia
Classifications
Children
Fiction
Physical Properties
Paperback
112
Width 130mm, Height 196mm, Spine 14mm
114g
Description
This funny, exciting and best-selling story takes you behind the scenes as eight-year-old Edward trains for the greatest swimming marathon of all!
Author Bio
Morris Lurie was born in Melbourne in 1938. After years of living abroad in England, Denmark, Morocco and Greece, he returned to Melbourne in 1973. He has written more than two dozen books, including The Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race, which was voted by the schoolchildren of Victoria as their favourite young storybook by an Australian author, and the award winning adult books Flying Home (1978), Whole Life (1978) and The Night We ate the Sparrow (1985).
