Josephine the Short-Neck Giraffe

Why not round out the week of Josephine episodes by taking a quick look at the book version of this story...

 

Originally written in the 1970s, the scanned images seen here were taking from a more recent publication from 2006.

Similar in plot to the week of episodes and LP featuring Josephine, this story is a much simpler version of the tale about the insecure giraffe with the short neck. The major different when it comes to the book version of this story is that only three characters mentioned: Josephine, her friend Hazel the Elephant, and J.R. the giraffe.

 

Unfortunately, there is no reference in this book's credits to an illustrator. While the illustrations throughout the book are terrific, it's the one seen on the final page that I like the most.

I thought this picture would make a pretty cool desktop background so if you're interest, here you go:

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I will warn you though, that you'll likely need to adjust the text under your icons slighly as the white background creates a bit of a color clash.

If you'd like a copy of this book for yourself, you can purchase one through the Fred Rogers Company store.