Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours

Jane Goodall chronicles her life and describes her journey in meeting chimpanzees. She grew up loving animals and was always curious about them. Her mother was continually encouraging her to take every opportunity to learn more. She was invited to Africa and came to know the chimpanzee world. There she fell in love with them and has spent her life researching, educating and protecting them. She founded two organizations. The Jane Goodall Institute is for wildlife research, education, and conservation. And Roots & Shoots is a humanitarian and environmental education program for youth. This is a beautiful picture book with photos of Jane's journey and some of her favorite furry friends. This is an inspiring book of an amazing lady.

This book is told by Jane Goodall herself. She starts by describing her youth and beginning love for animals. She continues to go through her life describing how the chimpanzees came to be apart of it. She then goes into the Chimpanzees themself, including her personal experiences and interactions with the animals. She describes how she lived in their enviroment in order to really understand them. She describes individual chimps that she became close to describing each one like a family member. She describes their community interactions, their babies, how they think, what it is like in captivity and how they are being mistreated, and what she is doing to protect them.

I have a lot of respect for her and others who do things like this. I show more myself am an animal lover. As a young girl I watched Gorillas in the Mist and after that, thought that I wanted to be that when I grew up. Therefore Jane Goodall is a hero of mine.

Classroom Extensions:
- Create a Time line over Jane's life and include the Chimpanzees she became very close to mapping out their interactions together in the time line.
- There are many wonderful videos from national geographic that show you Jane and her interactions with the Chimpanzees through her eyes. Watching and discussing would be wonderful i think.
- Discuss different things that can be done to protect the Chimpanzees and branch into protecting the environment. show less

In this informational and autobiographical picture book Jane Goodall tells about her early research in Gombe National Park, her childhood, and how she came to know Louis Leakey and first enter the bush. The book explains her findings about chimp communities and the threats chimpanzees face int eh 21st century.

Imagine a curiosity and passion that compels you to live in a community of chimpanzees. Dr. Goodall tells of her discoveries about chimpanzees, her love for them, and her campaign for the protection of these amazing animals.

Jane Goodall observed chimpanzees in Tanzania, at the Gombe National Park. She actually got to comb and interact with some of the wild chimps. There is a Jane Goodall institute in the US. I know this isn't about Jane Goodall, but this fact really caught my attention: "Humans can receive blood transfusions from chimpanzee donors." (pg. 74) The Chimpanzee I Love

Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World And Ours (Byron Preiss Book) by Jane Goodall (2001) is an incredible informational text about the author and her experiences with Chimpanzees. The book starts out explaining the author's life and how she got involved in researching Chimpanzees. Through the different chapters the reader learns more about Chimpanzees' habitats, what they eat, how they live, and problems facing these human-like animals. This is a quality book because of authentic information produced by the author. The incredible photographs of the animals and the people involved in her research really help tell the story.

In a classroom I could use this book in several ways. This book could be used to show a strong female over coming show more sexism to pursue her interests. It also shows her determination, having no experience or education on how to conduct research, to follow her dreams. This book could also be used to start an interest group project. Students might want to choose an animal and learn about its environment, habits, food, etc. show less