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The White Giraffe 20th Anniversary Edition

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By Lauren St John
Series: The White Giraffe Series
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The 20th anniversary edition of the beloved and bestselling The White Giraffe, featuring stunning new illustrations from David Dean. 'Lauren St John is the queen of kid's animal fiction, and her White Giraffe series is a veritable treasure trove of classic, wild adventure. Warm, emotional, stirring... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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A 20th anniversary edition of the first wildlife adventure in Lauren St John's bestselling and beloved White Giraffe series.

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The 20th anniversary edition of the beloved and bestselling The White Giraffe, featuring stunning new illustrations from David Dean. 'Lauren St John is the queen of kid's animal fiction, and her White Giraffe series is a veritable treasure trove of classic, wild adventure. Warm, emotional, stirring and heart-stopping in equal measure!' Ross Montgomery, author of I Am Rebel Martine is eleven when she goes to live on a game reserve in Africa, a place where mysteries and secrets abound, where the intoxicating magic of the country casts all sorts of spells. One lonely night, she looks out of her window and sees a young giraffe, silver tinged with cinnamon in the moonlight. 'For a split second their eyes locked, the small sad girl and the slender young giraffe, then the sky went dark. Martine pressed her face to the window, desperate to see the white giraffe again.' In that instant, Martine knows that she is prepared to risk everything for it. The giraffe looks at her as if it is waiting...

Series: The White Giraffe Series

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781444012514

Publisher: Hachette Children's Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 September 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Orion Children's Books

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by David Dean

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 190g

Pages: 208

Collections

Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Lauren St John Series: The White Giraffe Series Young Adult

About the Author

Lauren St John grew up surrounded by horses, dogs, cat, warthogs, and a giraffe on a farm and game reserve in Zimbabwe, the inspiration for her bestselling White Giraffe and One Dollar Horse series, and standalone novels, The Snow Angel and The Glory.

Her latest books are Finding Wonder.

Wave Riders and the Wofe & Lamb Mystery series. Kat Wolfe Investigates won the 2019 CrimeFest Best Crime Novel for Children, and Dead Man's Cove, the first in her Laura Marlin Mystery series, was the 2011 Blue Peter Book of the Year.

A passionate conservationist, Lauren is an Ambassador for the Born Free Foundation, a Patron of Mane Chance Animal Sanctuary, and the founder of Authors4Oceans. When not writing or saving leopards and dolphins, she is a full-time valet to her cats, Skye and Teddy.

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