Charles G. Mortimer Jr.

The Last Giraffe

An engaging tale of the efforts of a real-life American wildlife photographer and her safari guide husband to save the endangered Rothschild giraffe of Kenya by adopting an orphaned animal whose mother had been slain by a notorious poacher.

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

A precocious young girl and her younger brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.