A Giraffe and a Half

By Shel Silverstein

Book Overview

From Shel Silverstein, the New York Times bestselling creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends and The Giving Tree , comes a riotous rhyming picture book about a boy and his giraffe Featuring rhythmic verse and iconic illustrations, A Giraffe and a Half will leave every reader, young and old, laughing until the very end. Beloved for over fifty years, this classic captures Silverstein's signature humor and style. If you had a giraffe and he stretched another half, you would have a giraffe and a half . But what happens if you glue a rose to the tip of his nose? Or if you used a chair to comb his hair? Join this giraffe on a rollicking and ridiculous journey that will charm readers from beginning to end. And don't miss Runny Babbit Returns , the new book from Shel Silverstein This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060256559
• ISBN13: 9780060256555
• Release Date: November 1964
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.8" x 10.6"

Customer Reviews

Great lesser known Silverstein book

Such a fun book! You go through the growing list of what the giraffe has and it makes the whole family laugh every time. Love it and so glad to have it as part of our collection.

An Amazing Book

"A giraffe and a Half" By Shel Silverstein is an amazing book, especially for kids. I loved when my mom read it to me as a child or when I read it becuase it was always fun to see what came next. Sometimes I would even guess what was comming next. Both the pictures and the sayings made me laugh or smile. I would have to say it was one of my favorite books as a kid.

A Book My Mom Read To Me As A Child

I think this is a very good book for childeren becuase it is funny and also has alot of funny pictures. This book makes you laugh, and it also has many tounge twisters which, i think, makes it funnier. This book is about a giraffe and a little boy and he keeps making the giraffe do things or adds things to him. Everytime he adds something to him you read what the giaffe has on or did all over again. The giraffe ends up...

Delightful

One of the best children's books I've read. The rhymes are contagious. The story slides off your tongue as you read it. Children are taken with it. And then we create the game of adding new verses and rhymes for the giraffe, and a half.

Giraffe & a Half :()

Giraffe and a half is great for kids that love repetition. Your child could learn to memorize better with this book. I really love this book and I would recommend getting other Shel Silverstein books because I have the whole collection.