The White Giraffe is a children's novel by Lauren St John first published in 2006.

It is the first in the African Adventures series.

[1] Lauren St. John picked out a giraffe for the story because she always wanted to ride one.

When St. John was a child living in Zimbabwe, Africa, she owned several wild animals including a giraffe.

[2] The book is about a girl, Martine, who moves to an African game reserve to live with her grandmother after her parents die in a house fire.