When Elephant Met Giraffe

 By Paul Gude

I was pretty unimpressed by this book.  It's about an elephant who meets a mute giraffe and becomes friends with him after accepting his silence.

 The drawings are supposed to be cute, and I guess they'd be fine if the story was any good.  The brevity of the sentences and chapters is supposed to be cute, too, but nothing really happens.

Oh look, one of them wants to be a pirate, and the other a clown, so they have a fight and then decide to play pirates and clowns together.

A lot of these types of stories teaching kids how to be good friends are told much better in other books.  The pirate/clown thing was meant as an easy laugh, but it wasn't funny. 
My daughter loved this book, probably because of the pictures and the animals involved.  I couldn't bring myself to read it twice.