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4) Giraffes
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English
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An introduction to the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of giraffes, mammals that grow to be about fourteen to eighteen feet tall.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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English
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Eighty years before Columbus, China sent ships to explore the world. The Chinese discovered many marvelous things, but one discovery stood out above the others: the chee-lin. This chee-lin was just a giraffe, but to the Chinese, it was an omen of good fortune so rare that it had appeared only once before-- at the birth of Confucius. In a storybook of chapters, in which each page evokes the richenss of faraway places and long-ago days, James Rumford...
6) 5 giraffes
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64 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 27 cm
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English
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"The latest in the 5 Animals series, with an introduction by Rob Laidlaw, 5 Giraffes profiles five unique giraffes from both captivity and the wild. Accompanying the five giraffe profiles is information on their diet, social life, and chapters on some of their more unique aspects, like the giraffe's unusual body. Includes full color photographs throughout, glossary, bibliography, table of contents and index." -- Amazon.com.
7) La jirafa
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Español
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An introduction to giraffes, including their size, diet and everyday behavior, which highlights differences between those in the wild and those living in a zoo habitat.
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English
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In Giraffe Calves, emergent readers learn about baby giraffes. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, ensuring reading success by making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once.
Giraffe Calves includes tools for teachers as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents, words to know, and an index.
Giraffe...
9) Flying high
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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Walter the giraffe builds an airplane, but when Sonny the turtle wants to accompany him on his maiden flight, Walter ignores his request.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"Geoffrey is a very tall, very clumsy giraffe. He tries to make friends with the animals down on the ground, but he just trips, slips, and falls ... usually flat on his face. Poor old Geoffrey tries everything to fit in, but it's only when he realizes that his height can be an advantage that he stretches out his long neck and finds a host of friends in the trees. Soon he discovers he can find friends just by being himself."--Publisher.
12) Neck & neck
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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"A giraffe's self-esteem is tested when he competes with a balloon for a young boy's attention."--
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38 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Sparky is a turtle who likes to stay inside his shell. Joe is a giraffe who likes to stretch his neck and see the world. When a car appears one day at the famous cageless zoo where they live, the two set off on the ride of their lives, with Joe behind the wheel and Sparky hanging on for dear life. From the shopping mall to the car wash to the take-out burger joint, Joe and Sparky cause mayhem everywhere they go.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 27 cm
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English
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Retells the true story of how the first giraffe ever to come to Europe was sent by the Pasha of Egypt to the King of France in 1826, and the giraffe walked from the disembarkation point of Marseilles to Paris to see the King.
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78 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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A small boy with a desire to own a candy shop meets a window-washing team composed of a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey and together they go to work for the wealthy Duke of Hampshire, who makes all their dreams come true.
While Billy and the Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company are cleaning the windows of the Duke of Hampshire's estate, they spot the Cobra, the most dangerous cat-burglar in the world, stealing the Duchess's diamonds.
18) Giraffe problems
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"A giraffe struggles to feel comfortable with his neck"--
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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Picking red apples from a high tree in the hope of enjoying a satisfying snack, a starry giraffe generously gives away each apple she picks to a sequence of hungry friends and begins to fear that there won't be any apples left for her.
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