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It is baby Jinny, the youngest monkey, who notices the dejected Cecily G. on the other side of the ravine. Cecily G. notices the monkeys as well, immediately stops crying and asks the monkeys if they would like to cross. To assist them in crossing, Cecily G. leaps forward across the divide, bridging it with her body.
Giraffe is based on a true Czechoslovakian story, which Ledgard discovered while working as a journalist in the Czech Republic for The Economist in 2001. In 1975, on the eve of May Day, Czechoslovakian secret police dressed in chemical warfare suits sealed off the zoo in the small Czech town of Dvůr Králové nad Labem and orchestrated the slaying of the zoo's entire population of forty-nine ...
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 concludes every verse of his signature song with the phrase "the giraffe and the pelly and me".
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 ...
When St. John was a child living in Zimbabwe, Africa, she owned several wild animals including a giraffe. This book was the winner of the 2008 East Sussex Children’s Book Award. [2] The book is about a girl, Martine, who moves to an African game reserve to live with her grandmother after her parents die in a house fire. [3]
On the topics of class, sex, and alcohol—that is, the topics that mattered to him—his novels amount to a secret history of American life." [ 5 ] O'Hara achieved substantial commercial success in the years after World War II, when his fiction repeatedly appeared in Publishers Weekly's annual list of the top ten best-selling fiction works in ...
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Anne Christine Innis was born on 25 January 1933 in Toronto, Ontario. [3] [4] Her father, Harold Innis, was a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and her mother, Mary Quayle Innis, was an author of short stories and books about history.