I Don’t Want to Be a Pea! by Ann Bonwill
My rating: 5/5 cats
awww, because why wouldn’t the hippo and the little bird living on his head be best friends and go to parties together and get into fights about what costumes to wear? it makes me happy to think of it occurring out there in nature.
because bella (the bird, not the teenage necrophiliac) does not want to be the pea to hugo’s princess. and who can blame her? a pea is a totally boring costume. it is a round green ball. it could be mistaken for a boog. and no one wants to go to the “bird-hippo fairy-tale fancy dress party” dressed as a boog.
they attempt to come up with alternative costumes, but they just keep disagreeing, and it gets pretty nasty, “you are gray and blobby…”
oh, snap, bella.
so they decide to go to the party alone, but because this is a children’s picture book, everything ends up okay for the bird and the hippo, and most importantly, the pea.
is very cute.
and i thank the tomato for sending it to me. because i love hippos. and this bird is not as evil as other birds, despite that earlier hippo-burrrrn.
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