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Giraffes Can't Dance
Author: Giles Andreae
Publication date: July 2001 Children's book with a great story about being different means dancing to your own tune. Every year Gerald dreads the great Jungle Dance, and feels ashamed that he cannot tango and two-step with the rest of the jungle animals. But then one day he realises that it doesn't matter that he is different from everyone else--its just that he needs a different tune to dance to. |
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Laughing Giraffe
Author: Mwenye Hadithi
Publication date: June 2009 Lovely illustrated children's book. In the days long ago, Giraffe was the noisiest animal on the Great African Plain. He shouted a lot and he laughed all the time. This is the story of how the littlest Egret proved to Laughing Giraffe that you don't need to be loud to be heard. |
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Une girafe pour le roi
Author: Gabriel Dardaud
Publication date: November 2007 Fouillant dans les archives de la bibliotheque nationale du Caire, Gabriel Dardaud a retrouve episode par episode l'extraordinaire aventure de la premiere girafe arrivee en France en 1826. Cadeau du pacha d'Egypte au roi Charles X, la girafe debarqua a Marseille, pour etre acheminee - accompagnee par l'eminent naturaliste Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire et deux cornacs egyptiens - jusqu'e la menagerie du roi, au Jardin des Plantes. |
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Les Avatars de Zarafa : Premiere girafe de France - Chronique d'une girafomania : 1826-1845
Author: Olivier Lebleu
Publication date: November 2006 Premiere girafe de France, Zarafa debarque a Marseille a l'automne de 1826. Pourquoi, cent quatre-vingts ans plus tard, raviver le souvenir de la belle etrangere ? Parce qu'aucun livre n'avait encore rendu compte de la veritable girafomania qui s'empara de la France au debut du XIXe siecle. |