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The story follows the exploits of an orphaned reticulated giraffe only known as Cecily Giraffe, or simply "Cecily G." for short. She is saddened by the loss of her fellow jungle animals and family, all of whom had been captured and placed in a zoo.
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 ...
Giraffe Problems, published September 25, 2018, is a comedic picture book about a self-conscious giraffe. The book received starred reviews from Booklist, [4] Publishers Weekly, [5] and School Library Journal, [6] as well as the following accolades: Junior Library Guild Selection [11] Bill Martin, Jr. Picture Book Award Nominee (2020) [12]
The Story of Ferdinand: Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson: Peaceful and gentle Ferdinand prefers sniffing flowers to fighting in the arena. Geoffrey Giraffe Toys R Us Dr. G. Raffe Giraffe Giraffe The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me: Roald Dahl: Giraffe who works together with a pelican and a monkey as a window cleaner.
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.
The original Story Teller was released from December 1982 and throughout 1983 as a fortnightly partwork.Each magazine contained a selection of children's stories, some traditional folk tales like "Anansi the Spiderman", some children's tales such as Gobbolino, the Witch's Cat, and some contemporary works written especially for the series, like "Timbertwig".
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 ...
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.