Idora

By Alex Godard

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916291898
• ISBN13: 9780916291891
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Kane Miller Book Pub
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 12.8" x 0.5" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4

Customer Reviews

Amazing Book, Very One of a Kind

This giraffe is lonely, living in a Paris apartment that has just been sold to a developer. It shows the loneliness of leaving a long-term apartment, the other residents moving out, etc. and even her cat departs. But then Idora buys a one-way ticket out of the city. She does not find happiness yet, but she expects to. Will she? Will she remain all alone? The book ends in a very unresolved way, which is unusual for a children's book. The illustrations are great, but it is the story, so briefly told, that hits you and stays with you. We don't know if the displaced people of our world ever do find happiness. We only hope that they do. Idora is a memorable creature whose lonely life resonates in the mind long after you've closed the book.