The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

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They’re quick and easy to download and print out, giving you a time-saving activity to use when you’re studying this lovely book with your Primary classes. He made his neck longer and longer to help the monkey climb up the neck to reach the highest windows.

When Billy reopens The Grubber he chooses to sell sweets made by the Willy Wonka company which features in Dahl's earlier novels Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. The Monkey, who was dancing about most dangerously on top of the Giraffe’s head, cried out, ‘Show him, Giraffey!As a reward for retrieving the Duchess's jewels, the Duke invites The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company to live on his estate as his personal helpers.

In the 1985 children’s book The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl, a boy befriends three animals who operate a window-washing service. But his dream of renovating the building is dashed when one day he notices that the building has been renovated for The Ladder less Window-Cleaning Company.

Since he is the owner of the only tinkle-tinkle tree plantation in England, as well as thousands of walnut trees and an enormous salmon river (the River Hamp), all three starving animals have found the answer to their dilemma. The chauffeur unfolded the letter and began to read, ‘ “Dear Sirs, I saw your notice as I drove by this morning. The chauffeur said, ‘His Grace the Duke of Hampshire has instructed me to deliver this envelope to The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company. Many were originally written for American magazines such as Ladies Home Journal, Harper's, Playboy and The New Yorker, then subsequently collected by Dahl into anthologies, gaining world-wide acclaim. A walnut fresh from the tree is scrumptious-galumptious, so flavory-savory, so sweet to eat that it makes me all wobbly just thinking about it!