The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me only recently arrived in England, all the animals are finding it hard to acquire the right food to feed themselves. This includes fish for the Pelican, especially his favourite salmon; walnuts for the Monkey; and pink and purple tinkle-tinkle tree flowers for the Giraffe, who happens to be a "Geraneous Giraffe" and therefore can eat no food other than these flowers. Billy and the animals all band together when they receive a letter from the Duke of Hampshire asking them to clean the 677 windows of Hampshire House. Things go smoothly when they get there until, while cleaning the windows
Between the World and Me man discovering the site of a lynching and becoming incapacitated with fear, creating a barrier between himself and the world. Despite many changes in "Between the World and Me", Coates always planned to end the book with the story of Mabel Jones. The only endorsement Coates sought was that of novelist Toni Morrison, which he received. "Between the World and Me" was published by Spiegel & Grau in 2015. "Between the World and Me" takes the form of a book-length letter from the author to his son, adopting the structure of Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time"; the latter is directed,