A picture book · 2024

Timand the
Giant Giraffe

A story about wishes, hay, and very tall friends — from the imagination of a ten-year-old.

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Written by
Jack Simeonov, age 10
Format
8.5″ square paperback
Published
2024 · full colour
Tim and the Giant Giraffe — book cover. A boy looks up at a giraffe whose body is the night sky, framed by mountains at sunset.

There was once a boy named Tim, and he loved myths.

One day his father told him about a giant giraffe — the kind that grants a wish, but only to those who climb the tallest mountain at sundown. The trouble is, the tallest mountain is in Mexico, and Tim lives in Canada.

Luckily, Tim's father is a pilot.

Inside the book

A glimpse of the journey

A boy listens to his father tell stories beside a curious giraffe.
Tim packs his bag with a camera, a bottle, and hay.
Tim with a backpack looks out over a vast jungle and mountains.
A small propeller plane crosses a vast green valley between mountains, on the way to find the giant giraffe.
Early readers

What people are saying

The kind of story that makes a kid want to write their own. Imaginative, warm, and surprisingly poignant.

A. Reader Family friend

My six-year-old asked me to read it twice in one night. By morning he was drawing giraffes on everything.

A Parent Bedtime tester

Proof that you don't need to be a grown-up to tell a story worth listening to.

A Teacher Early reader
Jack Simeonov, age 10, blowing out a candle shaped like the number 10.
About the author

Jack Simeonov

From the creative mind of a ten-year-old boy who, despite aspiring to be many things, also wishes to be an author. Tim and the Giant Giraffe is his first book.

10 Years old
1st Published book
∞ Stories ahead