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A Giraffe and a Half  
Author: Shel Silverstein (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0060256559
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
   Book Review
A Giraffe and a Half

ANNOTATION

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."--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

If you had a giraffe

and he stretched another half...

you would have a giraffe and a half.

And if you glued a rose

to the tip of his nose...

And...if he put on a shoe

and then stepped in some glue...

And if he used a chair

to comb his hair...

And so it goes until...but that would be telling. Children will be kept in stitches until the very end, when the situation is resolved in the most riotous way possible.

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly

In time for its 40th anniversary, Shel Silverstein's A Giraffe and a Half now appears with a five-foot, unfolding cardboard giraffe tape measure affixed to the inside back cover. Beginning simply with a giraffe who "stretched another half," the poem snowballs into tumultuous disarray as the creature ends up "with a chair in his hair/ and a snake eating cake" and more. The pages quickly crowd with Silverstein's uproarious ink renderings of the bedlam. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

     



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