Giles Andreae, Author, Nick Sharratt, Illustrator, illus. by Nick Sharratt. Random/Fickling $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-385-75014-1 To the likely delight of small children everywhere, Andreae (Giraffes ...

Clumsy Gerald the giraffe first found his footing and gained the confidence to joyfully cut a rug at the Jungle Dance in 1999’s Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae, illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees ...

Let us count the reasons not to like Giles Andreae. He went to Eton, and to Oxford. He shares a bright and airy office in Notting Hill with Richard Curtis. And with Mariella Frostrup. He's a very old, ...

“These two photos hang on the wall in our son’s playroom. The first picture is me, aged 13. Vic, my wife, took the second photograph – and it’s of our fourth child, Jackson, at the same age, and in ...

Mommy is, in a word, awesome. "She's great to cuddle, soft to touch," writes Andreae (Giraffes Can't Dance), doesn't recoil from a "grubby nose" (a phrase that hints at this book's original ...

The fun of K Is for Kissing a Cool Kangaroo by Giles Andreae emanates from Guy Parker-Rees's renderings of an exuberantly silly animal world. All kinds of ABC-themed things pop up in his artwork. For ...

Friendly backyard creatures are the focus of the short, accessible poems in this energetically illustrated book. “I like to feed on tasty plants/ And trees that have gone rotten./ But the weirdest ...

We can’t say we’d given the idea of how a giraffe would dance much thought before now, but this fabulous tale of Gerald the giraffe will have you captivated with his magical moves. Author Giles ...

Purple Ronnie creator Giles Andreae has sold the publishing rights for his first children’s brand, World of Happy, to Egmont Press following an auction between five publishing houses. “World of Happy” ...

All the jungle's got the beat, but Gerald the giraffe has four left feet. Such is the dilemma in this British team's bouncy if didactic picture book about self-esteem. As a multitude of fleet-footed ...