For young readers · Scholastic · 1976
A young hippopotamus explains why he trusts children but has a healthy distrust of all grownups.
Based on the animated film Hugo the Hippo.
Tom on Hugo the Hippo
The pictures in Hugo the Hippo are stills from the movie I wrote. I was hired to write it thanks to my relationship with the director, Bill Feigenbaum, who was an art director in the NBC advertising department, where I worked as a copywriter early in my career.
