| Author | : Nancy Milton |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013-06-26 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9781930900677 |
Retells the true story of how the first giraffe ever to come to Europe was sent by the Pasha of Egypt to the King of France in 1826, and the giraffe walked from the disembarkation point of Marseilles to Paris to see the King.
| Author | : Mary Tavener Holmes |
| Publisher | : Marshall Cavendish |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780761455950 |
A giraffe causes a sensation when he walks 500 miles to Paris
| Author | : Dianne Hofmeyr |
| Publisher | : Frances Lincoln Children's Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015-09 |
| Genre | : Children's stories |
| ISBN | : 9781847806611 |
This is the astonishing true story of Zeraffa, a giraffe who was sent as a gift from Egypt to France in 1826. A young boy, Atir, takes care of Zeraffa on her epic journey and the sailors sing songs as she gazes down at them. In France, Atir leads her through the countryside, and thousands of people marvel at Zeraffa. Paris falls in love with Zeraffa. The King builds her a special house in the Jardin des Plantes. On warm nights, the young princess visits, while Atir whispers stories to Zeraffa of a hot land far away. The amazing story by an award-winning author of a giraffe's extraordinary voyage from Africa to Paris.
| Author | : Olivier Lebleu |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2020-08-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1538142252 |
This engaging account traces the remarkable history of France's first giraffe, a diplomatic gift from Egyptian Pasha Muhammed-Ali to King Charles X in 1826. “Zarafa,” taken by boat from Egypt to Marseilles and walked all the way to Paris, was accompanied by her Arab handlers and a famous French naturalist. She drew vast crowds along her route, sparking a giraffomania that was widely documented in art and literature. Her initial journey and then long and celebrated residence in Paris encapsulates nineteenth-century French socio-political history and highlights the emerging evolutionary theories of the time. Over fifty illustrations from the period illuminate this rare encounter with a unique animal that is now endangered and deserving of our greater attention and understanding.
| Author | : Emily Arnold McCully |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 34 |
| Release | : 1992-10-21 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0399221301 |
One day, a mysterious stranger arrives at a boardinghouse of the widow Gateau- a sad-faced stranger, who keeps to himself. When the widow's daughter, Mirette, discovers him crossing the courtyard on air, she begs him to teach her how he does it. But Mirette doesn't know that the stranger was once the Great Bellini- master wire-walker. Or that Bellini has been stopped by a terrible fear. And it is she who must teach him courage once again. Emily Arnold McCully's sweeping watercolor paintings carry the reader over the rooftops of nineteenth-century Paris and into an elegant, beautiful world of acrobats, jugglers, mimes, actors, and one gallant, resourceful little girl.
| Author | : Dianne Hofmeyr |
| Publisher | : Tiny Owl Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2020-05 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781910328590 |
A sassy cat from the back alleys of Paris believes she is quite different to the rest of the rabble. She can do anything she sets her mind to - even if others don't think so. Leaving her cat family behind, she sets off to explore Paris. Cat meets legendary singer Edith Piaf, creates her own stunning designs at a high-fashion atelier and dances with the infamous dancer Josephine Baker and her cheetah. But is this the life she really wants? What about her friends and family?
| Author | : Munro Leaf |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 89 |
| Release | : 2006-05-30 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 159017206X |
A Caldecott Honor Book by the creators of the beloved Story of Ferdinand Wee Gillis lives in Scotland. He is an orphan, and he spends half of each year with his mother's people in the lowlands, while the other half finds him in the highlands with his father's kin. Both sides of Gillis's family are eager for him to settle down and adopt their ways. In the lowlands, he is taught to herd cattle, learning how to call them to him in even the heaviest of evening fogs. In the rocky highlands, he stalks stags from outcrop to outcrop, holding his breath so as not to make a sound. Wee Gillis is a quick study, and he soon picks up what his elders can teach him. And yet he is unprepared when the day comes for him to decide, once and for all, whether it will be the lowlands or the highlands that he will call his home. Robert Lawson and Munro Leaf's classic picture book is a tribute to the powers of the imagination and a triumph of the storyteller's and illustrator's art.
| Author | : Allison Pataki |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2020-05-26 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1534425071 |
In the City of Lights, where can you go to find the brightest light of them all? Find out in this spunky introduction to Paris shown through the eyes of a curious child. Paris is the City of Lights. Poppy should know—she lives there. Each morning, she wakes up to the sound of church bells ringing Ding! Dang! Dong! Each morning, she buys fresh flowers from Madame LesFleur, who has the most brilliant blooms in the city. Each morning, she eats delicious pastries from Monsier LePain’s bakery. But one morning, she wakes up with a burning question: what light shines the brightest in a city full of them? She and her dog Baguette are about to find out.
