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.

It is dedicated to his brothers, Luke & Finn.

10 Years old
1st Published book
∞ Stories ahead