This week’s question: A 10-foot-tall giraffe named Gracie escaped a fenced-in Texas exotic animal ranch and roamed the state’s Hill Country for two weeks; she was eventually found “fat and happy,” having survived on local vegetation. If a children’s author were to write a book about Gracie’s Texas adventure, what would it be titled?
THE WINNER: “The Tallest Texas Ranger”
Joy E. McGinnis, Berwick, Pa.
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SECOND PLACE: “Gracie Sticks Her Neck Out”
Skip Flanagan, Roseville, Calif.
THIRD PLACE: “A Longneck Among the Longhorns”
Lindsay Nonnenmocher, Newark, Del.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
“Gracie Eats Her Vegetables”
Jill Dickerson, Anderson, Ind.
“A Long Tall Sally”
Tim Mistele, Coral Gables, Fla.
“The Lone Grazer”
Robert Berest, Manhasset, N.Y.
“Where the Tall Things Are”
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
“A Tall Tail”
Lidia Zidik, Reading, Pa.
“Gracie Heads for the Hills”
Jeff Goodrich, Andover, N.H.
“Curious Gorge”
Bill Levine, Belmont, Mass.
“The Giraffe Who Went Out to Eat”
Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Mass.
“Don’t Fence Me In”
Irene Zisek, Houston
“Everything’s Taller in Texas”
Carter Mitchell, Washington, D.C.
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