Who is Jane Goodall? by Roberta Edwards (Penguin (Random House), 2012, 112pp PB, $5.99, ages 7-9, grades 3-7) One in a series of 222 titles. Review by Skye Anderson.
You have seen these books in the bookstores but perhaps not all 222 of the titles. You have walked past them because with 222 books, how does one choose which one to buy first?
Maybe you could find one about the man or woman your child is learning about in school. Or maybe you can find one in a used bookstore of Little Free Library about someone worth reading about.
Jane Goodall is probably a typical Who is. . . ? book. I hope so. They have unique front covers, and line drawings throughout the book that children will want to color. For the older crowd of kids, inside are several pages of non-fiction enclosed within a square. With, of course, the requisite list of other books on the featured person.
Can you image going off to Africa and living with the animals in the jungle - and your mother?
Jane is everyone's hero, from young girls who love animals to older adults who teach children about nature and animals.
What Do We Know and Remember About Jane?
Jane's younger sister was born on her fourth birthday. Her first stuffie (stuffed animal) was a chimpanzee and she still has it. She has always had a blond ponytail. When she moved to Africa in her mid-20s, her mother had to come with her!
We even know the names of some of Jane's chimps: Graybeard and Flo and Flint and Pom and, of course, Roots and Shoots.
Jane is a short book that adults can read in perhaps an hour or at least in one evening.
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