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1) Giraffes
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48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
4) Giraffes
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24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
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English
Description
Presents an introduction to giraffes, in simple text with illustrations, describing their physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, and life cycle.
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48 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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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.
7) 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...
10) 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.
11) 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.
12) Giraffe calves
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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...
14) 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 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Conservationist Julian Fennessy, in collaboration with the Ugandan Wildlife Authority, embarks on a mission to transport twenty endangered giraffes to safety.
Dr. Julian Fennessy works to round up twenty of the world's rarest giraffes and transport them to safety in the heart of Uganda.
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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.
18) 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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