The Giraffe That Walked to Paris

The Giraffe That Walked to Paris
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.

A Giraffe Goes to Paris

A Giraffe Goes to Paris
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

Zeraffa Giraffa

Zeraffa Giraffa
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.

In the Footsteps of Zarafa, First Giraffe in France

In the Footsteps of Zarafa, First Giraffe in France
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.

ZARAFA.

ZARAFA.
Author: MICHAEL ALLIN.
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2025
Genre:
ISBN: 9780747275428

Paris on Air

Paris on Air
Author: Oliver Gee
Publisher: Earful Tower Publishing
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2020-05-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781098301996

Join award-winning podcaster Oliver Gee on this laugh-out-loud journey through the streets of Paris. He tells of how five years in France have taught him how to order cheese, make a Parisian person smile, and convince anyone you can fake French (even if, like Oliver, you speak the language like an Australian cow). A fresh voice on the Paris scene, he shares the soaring highs and crushing lows that come with following your dreams to the French capital. He also befriends the city's too-cool-for-school basketballers, chases runaway crocodiles, and goes on a mammoth honeymoon trip around France on his little red scooter.

Paris Cat

Paris Cat
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?

Mirette on the High Wire

Mirette on the High Wire
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.

Wee Gillis

Wee Gillis
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.