I’ve got a new school bag. I put my red drink bottle and my red lunch box in my school bag. My hippopotamus is packing his school bag too.The little girl from There’s a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake is starting her first day of school! She takes her hippopotamus with her and together they face those first-day-at-school experiences - meeting your teacher, eating, lunch in the playground and making new friends.This is a wonderful read-aloud book full of fun and reassurance for young people starting school.