When she was twenty-six years old, she ventured into the forests of Africa to observe chimpanzees in the wild. From the time she was a girl, Jane Goodall dreamed of a life spent working with animals. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Through her work at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania and her own Roots and Shoots program she has become a tireless advocate for animals and the planet.Īs for that stuffed toy, Jubilee still sits on Goodall’s dresser in London. During her expeditions she braved many dangers 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. Jane dreamed of a life spent working with animals, and when she was twenty-six years old, she ventured into the forests of Africa to observe chimpanzees in the wild. While others thought Jane would be terrified by the toy, she adored it and it inspired a life-long love of animals in her. Ages 8-12.Inspired by a stuffed toy, Jane Goodall became the first woman to study chips in the wild and in the process made history.Īs a child, Jane Goodall was given a stuffed chimpanzee named Jubilee, and she has said her fondness for this figure started her early love of animals. And because anecdotes about the chimps bear rereading, an index or other means of looking up a particular fact would have been a bonus. Stories of the chimps dominate the bookthey threaten to steal the show in many instances readers will love meeting these personable animals. Goodall talks of the sacrifices of living as she hasher first marriage ended in divorce, and she sees her family (including her son Grub) infrequently.
The story of her life with the chimpanzees of Gombe has long been available to adults in this book she brings that world to young readers and may very well inspire them to follow in her footsteps.The book begins with tales of her childhood in England and her earliest awareness of the needs of animals, her friendship with Louis Leakey and her trip with her motherto the first camp at Gombe. So enthusiastically does Goodall relate the first 28 years of her life in the jungles of Tanzania that her odyssey appears to have just begun.
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