GIRAFFE AND A HALF is a Picture Book of the Month in The Observer!

It was a joy to find that Giraffe had been selected by The Observer’s Children’s Book Critic, Imogen Carter, as a Picture Book of the Month, and for Giraffe to have her picture in the paper! Click here to read the full review!

“With her characteristic inky illustrations in gemstone colours, Nicola Kent returns with Giraffe and a Half (Andersen Press), about a young giraffe with six legs, three ears, adorable fluttering eyelashes, but no friends. Her self-consciousness has made her shy. One day, playing hide-and-seek on her own, she chances upon a flock of birds who scatter out of a tree, joyously resembling a tin of rainbow-bright Quality Street thrown into the air. The flock includes “a bird with a third” - three wings and three legs - who encourages the giraffe to shake off her inhibitions and make some friends.

“…Both Kent and [Lliana] Bird’s books are a fun way to emphasise that, as Bird puts it “there’s nothing more special than just being you.”

Giraffe and a Half is out in hardback on November 2nd.