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
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