Title - You Look Ridiculous, Said the Rhinoceros to the Hippopotamus Author: Waber, Bernard Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre A worried hippopotamus walks through the forest, growing increasingly depressed as one animal after another confesses that she looks ridiculous. Entertain Fantasy RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 469 2.6 640 Amazon RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels Sentences Total Words Different Words Max Word/Sent 43 Total # of Words 1307 # of Different Words 329 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 852 65.2% # of Hi freq words 135 41% % of Long Sentences 4.1 Low Freq occurs 46 3.5% # of Low freq words 29 8.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Concept: Fanciful Features Character traits Clear cause/effect Topics Body Trying to please Appearances Differences Jungles *Feelings, Behaviors Low Frequency Words absolutely fret further glorious granted handsome handsomely honest joyfully leopard leopard's magnificent mention nightingale nightingale's opinion otherwise personal prove raising reflection rhinoceros's ridiculous scrambled shaken studied truly worrisome yourselves