Ralphie The Lonely Giraffe

This heartwarming story is about a giraffe called Ralphie who is missing that special someone in his life. Ralphie has made good friends in The Five Brothers Zoo but he is still lonely. Ralphie is so happy when his brother Freddy visits him but he doesn't want Freddy to leave. Ralphie's friends in The Five Brothers Zoo prove that they are true friends and step in to try and stop Ralphie and Freddy from being separated again. Can the lions and monkeys stop Freddy from leaving and stop Ralphie from being lonely again? Ideal for ages 3 - 6

When a giraffe feels left out because the other animals can barely hear him or are afraid of him, an unexpected flood and an innovative idea by the giraffe changes the other animals' perspective.

A lonely giraffe named Gerry lives in a zoo. He has been lonely and today he decides to do something about it. He uses his long neck to escape his pen in search of friends. He meets many on the way and the reader learns about the other animals in the zoo and their distinguishing characteristics.

A heart-warming story in verse about a lonely giraffe who decides to follow his dreams.Mr Giraffe likes to taste the impossible. He eats rainbows by day and writes poems by night. The only thing missing in his life is having someone with him to listen. So he sets off to stay with each of his friends in turn - Bearwolf and Fidget, the penguineapigs, the baldrus and the moles... but he finds he doesn't quite fit in anywhere.When he helps Professor Yessir work on his telescope and they discover a very special planet together, he decides it's time to follow his dreams, but he'll need the help of his friends - and will they understand why he's leaving? With beautifully crafted rhyming verses and full-colour cover illustration by Tamar Bobokhidze, this make a lovely bedtime story to read exploring issues of moving home, loneliness, not fitting in and the sacrifices you sometimes have to make to be yourself and follow your dreams. Suitable for ages 5+, particularly enjoyed by by 8 year olds and ideally suited to reading aloud with families and groups of mixed ages.

A lion explores the city of Paris.

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Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans. In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York City for the urbane glamour of the City of Light. Gopnik is a longtime New Yorker writer, and the magazine has sent its writers to Paris for decades--but his was above all a personal pilgrimage to the place that had for so long been the undisputed capital of everything cultural and beautiful. It was also the opportunity to raise a child who would know what it was to romp in the Luxembourg Gardens, to enjoy a croque monsieur in a Left Bank café--a child (and perhaps a father, too) who would have a grasp of that Parisian sense of style we Americans find so elusive. So, in the grand tradition of the American abroad, Gopnik walked the paths of the Tuileries, enjoyed philosophical discussions at his local bistro, wrote as violet twilight fell on the arrondissements. Of course, as readers of Gopnik's beloved and award-winning "Paris Journals" in The New Yorker know, there was also the matter of raising a child and carrying on with day-to-day, not-so-fabled life. Evenings with French intellectuals preceded middle-of-the-night baby feedings; afternoons were filled with trips to the Musée d'Orsay and pinball games; weekday leftovers were eaten while three-star chefs debated a "culinary crisis." As Gopnik describes in this funny and tender book, the dual processes of navigating a foreign city and becoming a parent are not completely dissimilar journeys--both hold new routines, new languages, a new set of rules by which everyday life is lived. With singular wit and insight, Gopnik weaves the magical with the mundane in a wholly delightful, often hilarious look at what it was to be an American family man in Paris at the end of the twentieth century. "We went to Paris for a sentimental reeducation-I did anyway-even though the sentiments we were instructed in were not the ones we were expecting to learn, which I believe is why they call it an education."

I'm just as good as bloody Pierrepoint. In his small pub in Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they've abolished hanging? Amongst the cub reporters and sycophantic pub regulars, dying to hear Harry's reaction to the news, a peculiar stranger lurks, with a very different motive for his visit. Don't worry. I may have my quirks but I'm not an animal. Or am I? One for the courts to discuss. Martin McDonagh's Hangmen premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2015.

For 20 years, Dashrath Manjhi used a hammer and chisel, grit and determination to carve a path through the mountain separating his poor village from the nearby village with schools, markets, and a hospital. This inspirational story shows how everyone can make a difference if their heart is big enough. Full color.