Zeraffa Giraffa

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My favourite part of the story was at the end when the granddaughter feeds Zefaffa apples and Atir tells her stories about her home. I think this makes the giraffe happy. Along the way, thousands line the road to see the strange creature. When they finally reach Paris, Atir remains at Zeraffa’s side and sleeps high up on a platform close to her face at La Rontonde in the Jardin Des Plantes. At night a secret visitor joins them and listens as Atir whispers stories of a far off land. Today you are going to complete a reading activity based on our new book of the week, Zeraffa Giraffa.

Geoffrey is a giraffe, keen to make friends but when he bends down low to say hello to the tiny meerkats (my best illustration in the book) he stumbles. And when he tries to make friends at the watering hole, he slips and slides. Fed up with being clumsy and unappreciated, Geoffrey is finally able to find friends between the leaves of a tall tree with the monkeys and birds, who also love tall trees where "You can reach as high as the sky… and see as far as the stars!" 5. The Lonely Giraffe by Peter Blight, illustrated by Michael TerryThe journey was happy because there were nice views of Luxor and the Sphinx and the kind people gave them food for the journey. The first giraffe ever to set hoof in France nearly 200 years ago, confounded everyone with its strangeness. Was it a horned camel? A tall horse? Or a spotted zebra? The first time I saw giraffes up close was when I was an adult. I was in the night zoo in Singapore. There was a giraffe enclosure where you can sit and watch the giraffes munch on the leaves and go about their nightly rounds. The light was low, the sky was clear and I sat there just watching them pace the enclosure for almost an hour. The story is about a servant called Atir who has to take Zeffara the giraffe on a long trip to France and give the giraffe ? to the King of France ?? as a gift.

What do you think this book will be about? I think the book is about a giraffe that can only say rhymes because the title of the book rhymes. Explore the route that Zeraffa would have travelled. Plot it on a map or create your own map, and discuss the various sights that Zeraffa would have seen. I think the story is about a boy that becomes friends with a Giraffe. They are wearing capes on the front of the book to protect them from the weather.

This is the astonishing true story of Zeraffa, a giraffe who was sent as a gift from Egypt to France in 1826.

The young Nubian giraffe was captured by Arab hunters near Sennar in Sudan and first taken by camel, then sailed by felucca on the Blue Nile to Khartoum. From there she was transported down the Nile on a specially constructed barge to Alexandria. [3] She was accompanied by three cows that provided her with 25litres of milk each day. Zarafa remained in Paris for a further 18 years until her death, attended to the end by Atir. Her corpse was stuffed and displayed in the foyer of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris for many years, before being moved to the Museum of Natural History of La Rochelle, where it remains. Challenge children to write a story of their own. Create a giraffe character and then decide where you would send your giraffe and why. Denys Johnson-Davies (13–19 May 1999). "Journey of a giraffe". Al-Ahram Weekly No.429. Archived from the original on 21 September 2012.For more information see ‘Reading the Way 2’ Report Case Study 3 and the Case Study on Symbols from our RtW research in 2015. A giraffe in Paris! The idea sounds ridiculous but this beautiful picture book tells the true story of how the Pasha of Egypt sent a young giraffe called Zeraffa as a gift to the King of France. Captured on the plains of Africa, Zeraffa is too young to walk at first. Instead she is transported tied on to the side of a camel. From Africa Zeraffa, accompanied at all times by her Atir, a young boy who attends to her every need, travels by foot over land and briefly by sea when she must. Jane Ray’s illustrations bring alive every detail of the journey and Zeraffa’s triumphant welcome to Paris. They are especially entertaining capturing the ridiculous fashions that spring up around the city as everyone imitates all thing giraffe! ~ Julia Eccleshare Create a giant Zeraffa for the school.The RtW2 school project involved making an adult (well over 6ft tall) and a baby (nearly 5ft tall), made by the children, using a wide range of tactile materials.