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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 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 ...
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 ...
Jean Carolyn Craighead George (July 2, 1919 – May 15, 2012) was an American writer of more than one hundred books for children and young adults, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves and Newbery runner-up My Side of the Mountain. [1] Common themes in George's works are the environment and the natural world.
Rather than taking advantage of this, the opposing giraffe lines up head-to-toe, or head-to-head with the other giraffe. Each giraffe gets to fight from their preferred side. Amazingly ...
Maki follows Hassan as soon as he takes the giraffe with him. Hassan names the giraffe Zarafa (Arabic for "giraffe") and reluctantly agrees to take care of Maki and Zarafa. They come across a merchant, Mahmoud, who gives them two Tibetan cows, Mounh and Sounh. Maki discovers Soula being forced into slave labor by Moreno.