The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me is a 1985 children's book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. It is about a young boy, Billy, who meets a giraffe, pelican and monkey who work as window cleaners. Although the story is told in the first person by Billy, the word 'me' in the title refers to the monkey, who concludes every verse of his signature song with the phrase 'the giraffe and the pelly and me'. The story is told from the point of view of Billy, a young boy
Between the World and Me Christopher Jackson, to ask "why no one wrote like Baldwin anymore." Jackson proposed that Coates try. "Between the World and Me" is Coates's second book, following his 2008 memoir "The Beautiful Struggle". Since then, and especially in the 18 months including the Ferguson unrest preceding his new book's release, Coates somberly believed less in the soul and its aspirational sense of eventual justice. Coates felt that he had become more radicalized. The book's title comes from Richard Wright's poem "Between the World and Me", originally published in the July/August 1935 issue of "Partisan Review". Wright's poem is about a Black