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The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps

Author(s): Jeanette Winter

Biographies (Famous People) | Conservation

Acclaimed picture book biographer Jeanette Winter has found her perfect subject: Jane Goodall, the great observer of chimpanzees. Follow Jane from her childhood in London watching a robin on her windowsill, to her years in the African forests of Gombe, Tanzania, invited by brilliant scientist Louis Leakey to observe chimps, to her worldwide crusade to save these primates who are now in danger of extinction, and their habitat. Young animal lovers and Winter's many fans will welcome this fascinating and moving portrait of an extraordinary person and the animals to whom she has dedicated her life. "The Watcher" was named a Best Book of the Year by the "Boston Globe," " Kirkus Reviews," "Booklist," and the Bank Street College of Education.


Product Information

JEANETTE WINTER has written and illustrated almost 50 books for children, including "Diego" (a "New York Times" Best Illustrated Book, "Parents' Choice" Award winner, and Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies), "Emily Dickinson's Letters to the World" ("New York Times" Notable Book, "Parents' Choice" Silver Medal), "The Librarian of Basra" (ALA Notable Book), "My Name Is Georgia" ("Publishers Weekly" Best Book of the Year, ALA Notable, "Booklist" Editors' Choice), and "Mama" ("Boston Globe-Horn Book" Honor Book, Society of Illustrators Silver Medal). Her art with flat colors and perspectives in the folk art tradition have brought her many honors.

General Fields

  • : 9780375867743
  • : Random House Children's Books
  • : Red Fox
  • : 0.386
  • : November 2010
  • : 218mm X 218mm X 13mm
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jeanette Winter
  • : Hardback
  • : 1104
  • : Jeanette Winter
  • : en
  • : 590.92
  • : 48
  • : illustrations