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Cumulative rhymed text explains what might happen if you had a giraffe that stretched another half, put on a hat in which lived a rat that looked cute in a suit, and so on. Delightfully zany rhymes about a giraffe who accumulates some ridiculous things--like glue on his shoe and a bee on his knee--only to lose them again, one by one. Infectiously funny ... a good nonsensical text and illustrations.

"A giraffe struggles to feel comfortable with his neck"--

A giraffe and a mouse who live together in the forest think that each is better than the other, until a fire threatens their home and they discover that their differences can be assets after all.

The mismatched pals accidentally latch onto a big yellow bus and leave the cageless zoo for their first trip to school.

After a fire kills her parents, eleven-year-old Martine must leave England to live with her grandmother on a wildlife game reserve in South Africa, where she befriends a mythical white giraffe.

Big Max, the world's greatest detective, must travel to the land of Ah-Ah-Achoo to find the king's missing pet giraffe.

"Geri, the shortest giraffe who ever lived, is afraid he will ruin a group photograph so the other giraffes try everything they can think of to bring him up to their height until a caterpillar offers a different perspective." --

A young giraffe who is afraid of heights meets a monkey who is afraid of climbing trees and a hippo who is afraid of going in the water. Together they meet a crocodile who helps them overcome those fears.

Jelly Bean the Giraffe was napping when a bird built a nest on her, but she remains very still and careful until the baby birds hatch.

This book is about friendship and the distinctions of living in different parts of the world. A giraffe that lives in Africa meets a pelican who is a mailman. Since the giraffe is bored, she sends a letter to the first animal the pelican can find on the other side of the horizon. The letter passes on to a seal who gives it to a penguin. He reads the letter and even though he does not understand it he writes back, and becomes the giraffe's pen pal....