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You may)adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nImages on pages Front Cover, 1–2, 6 by MBANJI Bawe Ernest, © 2019 SIL Cameroon. CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0.  \nImages on pages 3, 5 by Jedidja van Oene, © 2019 SIL Cameroon. CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0.  \nImage on page 4 by Susan Rose, © 2019 SIL Cameroon.  \nCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0.  \nThe Giraffe  \nA giraffe is the tallest living animal. Some grow to be 6 meters tall.  \nEverything about a giraffe is long. He looks down on you from huge dark eyes fringed with beautiful long eyelashes . When he walks he swings along on his 2 meter long legs. He can run as fast as a horse .  \nWhen the adult male feeds he uses his long blue-black tongue to pull leaves from high branches . 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