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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 ...
In Dreams (ISBN 0-575-05201-5) is a 1992 anthology of science fiction and horror short stories, [1] 'a celebration of the 7-inch single in all-original SF and horror fiction'. It was edited by Paul J. McAuley and Kim Newman , and published by Gollancz .
The Woman Who Loves Giraffe. 28 October 2018 – via YouTube. "She pioneered giraffe research but few know her name". The Fifth Estate. 25 November 2019 – via YouTube. "W5: Meet the Canadian who literally wrote the book on giraffe". Official W5. 6 February 2021 – via YouTube. "Giraffes & Feminism - Dr. Anne Innis Dagg".
Dali considered the giraffe to be a masculine symbol. A flaming giraffe was meant to be a "masculine cosmic apocalyptic monster". [124]: 123 Several children's books feature the giraffe, including David A. Ufer's The Giraffe Who Was Afraid of Heights, Giles Andreae's Giraffes Can't Dance and Roald Dahl's The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me.
Dream interpretation is the process of assigning meaning to dreams. In many ancient societies, such as those of Egypt and Greece , dreaming was considered a supernatural communication or a means of divine intervention , whose message could be interpreted by people with these associated spiritual powers.
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]
She is the author of two books about dream interpretation: the bestseller [2] Dream Power, [3] and The Dream Game. [4] The Dream Game devotes a chapter to puns in dreams, including verbal puns , reversal puns , visual puns , puns involving proper names , puns involving literal pictures of colloquial or slang metaphors, and puns involving ...
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 ...