Surry The Grumpy Hippo is an inspirational, transformational, personal growth, spiritual awakening short story that will leave you with a tune that you can hum in your daily life. This story takes the reader to Surry's section of the forest and a clash with Mother Nature. Theirs's a crisis through the eyes of the animals. The animals struggle to live, love or die. But in the end Surry find something that ripples into eternity.

A haunting story of a Grumpy old Hippo. When Surry the Hippo runs the other animals out of his section of the forest. Mother Nature attacks his valley with hurricanes and rain that refused to leave. But the animals find a way into Surry's valley climbing over a mountain. When the animals returned, plants and trees begin to bloom again. After seeing his valley return to life again, Surry changes and welcomes the other animals to live and play in his valley. During his transformation he carries an injured bug up the mountain and places it in a tree.