The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me who has always dreamed of owning a sweet shop. His ambition is strengthened by the fact that there is an abandoned building named The Grubber, an old English word for a sweet shop, near where he lives. One day, he finds that the old building has been renovated and has become the head office for The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company. Billy then meets its workers: a Giraffe with an extendable neck; a Pelican, or "Pelly" as he is called by the others, who has a flexible upper beak; and a singing and dancing Monkey, all of whom he quickly befriends. Having
Me and the Pumpkin Queen Me and the Pumpkin Queen Me and the Pumpkin Queen is a 2007 children's novel by Marlane Kennedy and published by Greenwillow Books, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers. The book's subject is inspired by Kennedy's youthful familiarity with the Circleville Pumpkin Show. The book has been chosen as a Junior Library Guild Selection. Santa Monica Public Library also lists the book as recommended reading for kids. The plot centers around an eleven-year-old girl named Mildred whose mother, a former "pumpkin queen", died in Mildred's sixth year of life. Inspired by an image of her mother "wearing her Pumpkin Queen crown," Mildred