Giraffe Problems

Author: Jory John . Illustrator: Lane Smith

Just this morning, I was thinking that this blog has an animal problem because I was reading and writing about too many books with animals as central characters. Along came this book. Giraffe Problems opens with a Giraffe Edward who has insecurities about this long neck. How he helps someone with his neck and realizes everyone needs to be comfortable in their own shoes is the rest of the book. I love the writing- it is simple and I love the illustrations as they are simple and expressive. Even I, who has two left hands, copied the giraffe on my daughter’s etch a sktch (fancier one than the classic) and thought it was not bad.

I am not sure what it is called but this book has one of those pages where you flip the page and you have go from landscape mode to portrait mode . I first saw it in the book Mell the Fell but is a nice addition whenever the story demands it because it changes the eyeline and makes the reading more enjoyable.