It is with some regret that I sit down to write this correspondence. I understand your reluctance to read voluminous missives so I will keep this missive as unchunky as my e-pen allows. Billy's biggest wish is to turn a weird old wooden house into a wonderful sweet shop. But then he finds a giraffe, a pelly and a monkey living inside - Now they're the Ladderless Window Cleaning Company! They become best friends, and now that they have a promising job to carrout out, there's a chance that Billy's scrumptious, galumptious dream just might come true... The giraffe, pelican and monkey set up a window cleaning company. Can you think of some other animals? What job might they be able to do? Could you write a story about this? Look at the songs and rhymes in the story. Can you identify the rhyming words? Can you think of other words that rhyme with these? Draw a plan of the inside of Hampshire House. How many different rooms might it have? What special rooms could be inside it?

Told from the point of view of a young boy named Billy, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Metells the story of Billy's lifelong dream to own a candy store (which the British call a "sweet shop.") He almost constantly is reminded of this dream because of an abandoned building next to his home called the Grubber (an old term for a candy store). He is a criminal and is known as being one of the most dangerous cat burglars. He attempts to steal the jewels at the Duke of Hampshire’s house, but is foiled by Billy and the members of The Ladder less Window-Cleaning Company. Update this section!

Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Norwegian descent, who rose to prominence in the 1940's with works for both children and adults, and became one of the world's bestselling authors. Children love Roald Dahl’s books, because they make fantastical settings and characters so easy to believe in. Now you can absorb your classes even further into Roald Dahl’s wonderful world with this fun activity. These Roald Dahl ‘The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me’ worksheets are ideal for supporting your teaching on this story and helping children to understand the text.

Although the story is narrated in 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'. Imagine that you could fit inside a pelican’s mouth and fly anywhere in the world. Where would you go to? Why? The fortunes of these animals whose ability to talk is never once questioned changed after revealing they are solid citizens by thwarting the attempted robbery of a Duke. Grateful for having his wife’s expensive jewelry collection protected from being stolen by a notorious burglar known as the Cobra, the Duke offers the animals a place to live on his estate in exchange for cleaning his windows and harvesting fruit from his orchards. To do this, they must close down their privately owned business and thus become wards of the estate. As in wards of the state. As in receiving government assistance while meeting a minimum requirement of applied labor. One third of The Ladder less Window-Cleaning Company, he is also simply known as, ‘Pelly.’ He complains about the taste of the fish in London and complains of not being able to eat salmon. He is stated to have a flexible upper beak. Monkey The Monkey, in both appearance and diet, bears a strong resemblance to Muggle-Wump, a monkey from two of Dahl's earlier books: The Enormous Crocodile and The Twits.Listen to THE GIRAFFE AND THE PELLY AND ME and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry - plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios! One can read this seemingly benign and controversy-free Dahl book published in the wake of massive social upheaval dedicated to dismantling the welfare state and reforming the country’s immigration policies—should one so desire—as a blistering critique of the entire social structure of post-WWII British history up to the election of Margaret Thatcher. Update this section!

Find out about giraffes, pelicans and / or monkeys. Can you write a report about them to teach others about your chosen animal(s)? I’m think you may have got our Agency confused as there is no Darren or Cariller Cray working here! 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.Dahl masters yet another story here by finding new characters and new angles to approach. With another child protagonist (as attentive readers will see, many Dahl tales are narrated by children), the story progresses. The precocious narrator goes off to explore the world, alone. I noticed that there are rarely any parental figures found in Dahl's children's books, which was mentioned in a recent biography I read of the author. Billy is free to frolic and find his way, dashing off to an estate with three random animals, where they eventually clash with an armed robber. How interesting for a children's book to remove the 'adult flavour', at least parents, from the narrative and give complete control to a child seemingly the same age as the target audience. The story flows well and the characters work well together to forge a strong story and decent collection of morals and lessons that are threaded throughout. Kudos, Mr. Dahl for all you have given us. You departed the world much too soon, but left a literary footprint that no one else will ever fill. He is the main protagonist of the story - a young boy who dreams of owning his own sweetshop. He meets the animals from The Ladder less Window-Cleaning Company by chance, and begins to work for them, resulting in many adventures. Giraffe