Protecting the Planet: The Season of Giraffes by Nicola Davies

Protecting the Planet: The Season of Giraffes by Nicola DaviesAn ultimately inspiring story of how giraffes have dealt with modern climate change, beautifully told and illustrated and marking the launch of an exciting new series. Once, this season of rains was the season of giraffes In this powerful picture book, bestselling children's author Nicola Davies writes in collaboration with conservationist Kisilu Musya to explain how one of the world's best loved animals has dealt with the challenges of climate

Young readers will learn where in the world all sorts of birds can be found and all the weird and wonderful things about them that they never imagined were true

the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like

mercurially eloquent

McGahern explores with precision and tenderness a human situation

some albatross families live with two mummies and some cheetahs are adopted by two daddies

For a moment

via the chapel

finds herself pregnant after a brief romance

but one wicked fairy was angry at having been left out of the celebration and placed a wicked curse on the little princess

The Midnight Hound is Gracie's debut picture book to be published

Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of his finest work published in Penguin Modern Classics

Her subjects range far and wide: Robespierre and Danton