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The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me is a 1985 children's book written by Roald Dahl [1] and illustrated by Quentin Blake. The plot follows a young boy named Billy who meets a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey, who work as window cleaners. Although the story is narrated in first-person by Billy, the word "Me" in the title refers to the monkey, who ...
1-84255-520-0. Followed by. Dolphin Song. The White Giraffe is a children's novel by Lauren St John first published in 2006. It is the first in the African Adventures series. [1] Lauren St. John picked out a giraffe for the story because she always wanted to ride one. When St. John was a child living in Zimbabwe, Africa, she owned several wild ...
PZ7.R33 Ce 2007. Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys is a 1939 children's short story written and illustrated by German-American author H. A. Rey. It is the first story to feature Rey's now-famous character, Curious George. When it was first published in France, Cecily's original name was Rafi (Raffy when it was first published in the United Kingdom ...
Giraffe Problems was mostly well received by critics, including starred reviews from Booklist, [1] Publishers Weekly, [2] and School Library Journal. [3]Multiple reviewers praised John's writing, which Deborah Stevenson, writing for The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, called "wry and funny" and "highly performable, with lots of comic formality of language punctuated—or sometime ...
Anne Christine Innis Dagg CM (25 January 1933 – 1 April 2024) was a Canadian zoologist, feminist, and author of numerous books. A pioneer in the study of animal behaviour in the wild, Dagg is credited with being the first person to study wild giraffes. [ 1 ] Her impact on current understandings of giraffe biology and behaviour were the focus ...
Tears of the Giraffe is the second in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith, set in Botswana, which features the Motswana protagonist Precious Ramotswe. The agency takes on two cases, one involving a college-aged boy who disappeared ten years earlier, and the other a local man who does not understand why ...
Animal Problems is a children's book series by Jory John, illustrated by Lane Smith, and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. The series includes three books: Penguin Problems (2016), Giraffe Problems (2018), and Cat Problems (2021). The books have received starred reviews from The Horn Book, [1] Kirkus Reviews, [2] Booklist, [3 ...
www.gilesandreaemusic.com. Giles Andreae (born 16 March 1966) is a British writer and illustrator. He is the creator of the stickman poet Purple Ronnie and the humorous artist/philosopher Edward Monkton, and is the author of Giraffes Can't Dance and many other books for children. [1]