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From the time she was a girl, Jane Goodall dreamed of a life spent working with animals. Finally she had her wish. When she was twenty-six years old, she ventured into the forests of Africa to observe chimpanzees in the wild. On her expeditions she braved the dangers with leopards and lions in the African bush. And she got to know an amazing group of wild chimpanzees -- intelligent animals whose lives, in work and play and family relationships, bear a surprising resemblance to our own.
Lexile Measure: 910L (What's this?)
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Aladdin; Rev ed. edition (April 1, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0671562711
ISBN-13: 978-0671562717
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.5 x 7.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (87 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #34,777 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #4 in Books > Science & Math > Biological Sciences > Animals > Apes & Monkeys #39 in Books > Children's Books > Biographies > Science & Technology #58 in Books > Children's Books > Education & Reference > Science Studies > Nature > Environment
Age Range: 8 - 12 years
Grade Level: 3 - 7
I liked the book because it was an adventure story. In one part, the plane crashed. Jane Goodall, Grub (her son), and Derreck (the pilot) didn't get hurt, but they had to cross a river full of crocodiles! I also like the book because it is about Africa, a continent I only know a little about. Besides the amazing animals, I learned that there are important fossil beds in Africa.Chimps are a central part of the story. The author does a good job of describing the chimps' habits and behavior. The chimps challenge each other for the alpha position (highest ranked position in the group).I found Jane Goodall likeable because she has interest in saving an endangered species. She reported that chimps can make tools and use them as well as we can. No one knew that before Jane discovered it. Dr. Goodall is also the leader of a special club dedicated to saving chimpanzess.I would recommend this book to anyone who likes the fascinating behavior of animals.
This is a beautiful book, grasping your atention and holding your hand thru a fantastic journey into Africa, and into the chimpanzes of the Gombe. You will get to meet all of them, and even see how they are like, observing the individual diferences of their behaviour. Parents: please purchase it for your kids! Kids: get your parents to buy it for you! Inspiring! I am now 22, but I must have been 10 when I first read this book (not this edition of course!). I still purchase Jane Goodall's books...and I'm following the dream she helped inspire: to go to a place no one can pronounce to study an animal few people care about...
My 8 year old was assigned to do her monthly book report on a biography. She wanted to read about Abraham Lincoln... until she found out she had to dress up as the book's subject! Regrouping with a week to go and a driving vacation looming, I rushed to find a children's biography available in audio download... and stumbled upon this gem. We all listened to the (abridged) audio version on the trip, and I do think that hearing it read by the author added a great deal. My daughter read the unabridged book with fascination when we got home, though I suspect she might have had more difficulty relating to the book had she not heard Jane Goodall speak her own words first. At any rate, the report (outfitted with khakis, a notebook, and a velcro-handed stuffed chimp) was a great success, and my daughter has met a role model of determination, compassion, and wisdom.
My daughter is 6 and we have read a lengthy excerpt every day since she received this book for Christmas. She is enthralled. Ms. Goodall is a wonderful, true-life role model for young girls.
An excellent book! Reading about the extraordinary life Jane Goodall has led is fascinating in itself. Add to it the personalities of the chimps you get to know as you read the book and the adventures Jane Goodall has experienced, and you have a fascinating read. Other reviews recommend this book to children, I recommend it for adults as well. I am thirty-something years young and cried when I read parts of this. Dr. Goodall's love for these animals really comes through.
The book was purchased for a project learning about Jane Goodall. Unfortunately for me, I didn't look closely enough before buying the book to realize it was written for young readers. Even though it wasn't appropriate for my college level project, I read through it anyway and found it to be an excellent book.
Apparently I missed the description of this book as a YA book. I was expecting it to be full of Jane's years of observations and discoveries. Instead it was more about how she became an animal researcher. The last quarter was full of advice to young people about observing animals and helping ecology. For what it was, it was well written and easily understood. It just was not what I was expecting.
The book had a good story and information, however, multiple issues were present. First off, almost every page had a grammatical or sometimes spelling error and an extreme lack of commas. Also, I am not saying I disagree with Jane's thoughts, but by the end of the book, the book was just preaching at you. It told you exactly what you should think and gave issues and evidence on why it mattered. I think some of here points were valid, but by the end of the book I had more knowledge on why chimpanzees were important and why we should care (about animals in general), than information about Jane Goodall and her life. Not a bad thing, but the book just needed more actual facts, rather than Goodall's opinions.
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