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Giles Andreae.

Writer · United Kingdom · b. 1966

Giles Andreae: British author of Giraffes Can't Dance (with Guy Parker-Rees on art) and Pants — bouncy, rhyming UK picture books for ages 3–6.

Giles Andreae is a British author born in 1966, best known for Giraffes Can't Dance (1999, illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees), one of the bestselling UK rhyming picture books of the last 25 years, and for the Purple Ronnie greetings-card and adult-picture-book franchise (out of scope here). His children's-book catalogue also includes Pants (with Nick Sharratt), Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!, K Is for Kissing a Cool Kangaroo. Andreae's voice is bouncy, rhyming, broadly read-aloud-friendly, in the contemporary UK picture-book rhyming tradition. A reliable picture-book author for ages 3–6.