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 ...

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 ...

Never have I lost control of myself quite so violently as when I was told that I had cancer for the second time. By the time my wife, Victoria, had brought me home, I was banging my head against ...

“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 ...

An adaptation of Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees’s bestseller loses some of the grace of the picturebook despite a moonlit acrobatic ending Author Giles Andreae and illustrator Guy Parker-Rees have ...

In reassuring couplets and gentle ink-and-wash drawings, the team behind Love Is a Handful of Honey explains just how deep grandparents' love for their grandchildren can be. "It's heaven to see you!" ...

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 ...