The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me-Roald Dahi

Roald Dahi, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, U.S.A. Puffine books 1993, 73pp,ISBN 978-0-141-32631-3

Age: 5-9
Rating: 4.5/5

“The giraffe the Pelly and me” is a book with fun, humor, fantasy, poem and adventure. Billy’s biggest wish is to turn a weird old wooden house into wonderful sweet-shop. One day he find out that in they place that he thought that will be sweet-shop it’s now window cleaning company.  

Three goods friends open window cleaning company, and believe it or not this is leaderless window cleaning company! Because “who needs a ladders at all when you are thirty feet tall? Not Giraffe and not Pelly! Not Me” as you can already understand those three friends are Giraffe, pelican and monkey.

Billy and the Giraffe, pelican and monkey become best friends, and when they meet the richest man in all of England the action is start…

It is an inspiring story, which opens children’s imaginations, if only for the fact that the characters are all animals which have different jobs and roles.

The book is suitable for young children, as it has a straight-forward plot, is easy to read and exciting events occur in it. The beautiful illustrations are black and white sketches and made by Quentin Blake.

This book is about teamwork, fun, dreams, children fantasy with… sweets and friendship coming true.

“All you do is to look, at a page in this book because that where we always will be. No book ever ends when its full of your friends the Giraffe and the Pelly and Me.”

Nice activate that can be done after reading the book is to speak with the children about these animals and their habitat, diet and relationship with other animals. You can also draw with the kids giraffe, paste it to the wall and mark their height on it and from time to time to show them how much they grew taller.