The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park
Authors: Michiko Ayoama, Takami Nieda
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 9781529949766
Nestling at the bottom of a five-storey apartment block in the community of Advance Hill is the children's playground, Hinode Park, where you will find a very special hippo ride. According to urban legend, if you touch it with the area of your body that needs comfort, you will see swift signs of recovery.
Meet a couple of the neighbours who use the hippo ride, from a highschool student to an eighty-year-old cleaning lady:
- Kanato lays his head on the hippo's back, hoping to recover the confidence he lost when he started at his scary new school;
- Saha, a new mother with no friends, strokes its mouth, in case she can bring back the words she spoke when she was an award-winning retail assistant.
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