"There was a hippopotamus
Who hiccupped quite-a-lotamus.
And every tmie he got'emus ...
He'd fall upon his bottomus."

Calamity ensues when an elephant, a centipede, and a rhinoceros try finding a cure for hippo's colossal case of hiccups. Zenz's creativity shines through with his use of colored pencil in this off-the-wall read-aloud. HIC! HIC! HIC!