his estate as his personal helpers. Since he is the owner of the only tinkle-tinkle tree plantation in England, as well as thousands of walnut trees and an enormous salmon river (the River Hamp), all three starving animals have found the answer to their dilemma. Billy's dreams also come true because the Giraffe, Pelican, and Monkey will no longer need the Grubber building; with a little help from the Duke, the Grubber is revived into the most fantastic sweet shop for miles around (among the sweets it sells are Liplickers and Plushnuggets from Norway, one of the “lands of the midnight sun”), and the story ends with Billy running the shop and The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company continuing their business (and the Pelican's beak having been fixed). Billy gives each of his new friends special gifts: to the Giraffe, a bag of Glumptious Globgobblers, to the Monkey, a bag of Devil’s Drenchers, to the Pelican, a bag of Pishlets, and to the Duke, a bag of Scarlet Scorchdroppers. The Monkey, before leaving with the others, sings a little song to Billy (thus the ending). Relations to other Roald Dahl books When Billy reopens The Grubber he chooses to sell sweets made by the Willy Wonka company, which features in Dahl's earlier novels Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a person who sucks rainbow drops can spit in only six different colors; there are seven in The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me. Sometimes the rainbow is said to have seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo (dark blue), and violet (or purple). More often, they are said to be red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. However, one version of the cover of the book features a person spitting in pink instead of orange. The Monkey, in both appearance and diet, bears a strong resemblance to Muggle-Wump, a monkey from two of Dahl's earlier books: The Enormous Crocodile and The Twits. Among the sweets that Billy sells in The Grubber are Fizzwinkles, from China. They are referenced in one of Dahl's earlier novels, The BFG, except there they are spelled "Fizzwinkel". Editions (hardcover, 2003) (hardcover, 1985) (paperback, 2004) (paperback, 2004) (paperback, 1993) (paperback, 1987) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1985 British novels 1985 children's books British children's novels Fictional giraffes Books about birds Fictional pelicans Fictional monkeys Jonathan