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The Trouble With Giraffes

Name: The Trouble With Giraffes
ISBN: 9781665962766

Hardcover – Picture Book, September 16, 2025

Lisa Mantchev

A Paula Wiseman Book/Beach Lane Books · Hardcover · September 16, 2025

Reading lane: Giraffe Stories

A girl and her pet giraffe are friends despite their difference in size in this tender picture book companion to the bestselling and acclaimed Strictly No Elephants .

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Why This Clicks

Room for Everyone

A warm picture-book read about friendship, accessibility, and making space for everyone.

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A girl and her giraffe navigating the practicalities of being friends
A gentle take on inclusion that keeps friendship at its heart

Expect

A tender picture-book companion to Strictly No Elephants
Pet Club members finding a way to include everyone

Book Details

Authors: Lisa Mantchev
Publisher: A Paula Wiseman Book/Beach Lane Books
Published: September 16, 2025
Format: Hardcover
Theme: Giraffe Stories · Giraffes
Reading lane: Giraffe Stories

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Pet Stories
Giraffe Stories
Friendship

About This Book

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A girl and her pet giraffe are friends despite their difference in size in this tender picture book companion to the bestselling and acclaimed Strictly No Elephants . A girl knows having a pet giraffe poses some difficulties, like finding a way to take walks together with legs very different in length. And her giraffe doesn’t fit into the clubhouse door for Pet Club. But the Pet Club members come together to find a way for him—and everyone—to be included. Because that’s what friends do. Strictly No Elephants has been sold around the world and is heralded as a pitch-perfect book about inclusion. Now, readers can celebrate the importance of both inclusivity and accessibility in this new companion that is full of new friends to love.