West With Giraffes in Reading with Style

Oct 06, 2022 Elizabeth (Alaska) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: zz2022-acquisitions, women, 5-star-reads, kindle, twenty-first-century

I thoroughly enjoyed this. I had seen it many times on one of the deals emails, but studiously ignored picking it up. Until, that is, it was recommended by Valerie, a Goodreads friend. Goodreads friends are so good for letting you wander outside your normal reading path!

It was simply coincidence that I started this just after Hurricane Ian landfall. Honestly, I don't think I realized that part of the premise of this fiction-based-on-fact story is that the giraffes landed following the biggest hu ...more

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Oct 25, 2022 Kim rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: voluntary-simplicity, southern-us, historical-fiction, epistolary, libby, coming-of-age, tx, depression-era, nature, animal

This book is based on a true story, set in the late 1930s, when America was in the depths of the Depression, facing the rise of Hitler in Germany, and trying to survive the effects of the Dust Bowl. It was a simpler time, and the country was looking for some relief and hope. Belle Benchley, director of the San Diego Zoo was hoping to provide that with two young giraffes, whose cross country journey is chronicled in this book.
There were so many things I loved about this book, the format - almost ...more

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Aug 15, 2022 Krista rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audibe-ku, historical-fiction-usa, time-1900-1949, fiction, highly-recomnd-read, animals, adventure, coming-of-age, setting-usa, historical-fiction

Wow -- what a fantastic journey book took me on! I'm so glad that I finally picked up this book. Why did it take me so long?

I loved Woody Nickel's story about the adventure of a dust-bowl orphan driving two giraffes from New Jersey to San Diego in 1938. Was the story jam packed with adventures and some improbable scrapes? Yes, but it was also packed with heart and pathos for both humans and animals.

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