With Love - Hardcover

Jane Goodall

4.25

36 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558589112 ISBN 13: 9781558589117

Publisher: North-South Books, 1998

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In this enchanting book, world-renowned scientist and conservationist Jane Goodall brings together stories gleaned from nearly 40 years of studying chimps in the forests of Tanzania. As the stories recounted here demonstrate, chimpanzees are capable of great compassion, altruism and love. Full color.

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About the Author:

Marc Bekoff is Professor of Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society. A founder with Jane Goodall of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, he is the editor of the best-selling The Smile of a Dolphin: Remarkable Accounts of Animal
Emotions and author of Strolling With Our Kin.

Review:

Gr. 4k, younger for reading aloud. A three-year-old follows a local male adolescent everywhere; an adult female brings her infirm mother some fruit; an unattached 'Auntie' adopts three orphans: simple, universal stories-not about humans but about chimpanzees. Revered scientist Goodall tells a handful of stories about touching, funny, and emotional moments she has observed over nearly 40 years of studying chimpanzees. Children will love these stories because they are sometimes silly or gross and because they are always tender, and young humans will recognize aspects of themselves in the younger chimps. Adults will love them because the tenderness is so transparent and unaffected. We see the seven-year-old Prof gently cleaning the snot off his two-year-old brother's face with leaves, and the great David Greybeard refusing a nut from Goodall but taking her hand in gratitude. Marks' watercolor-and-ink paintings capture both action and stasis beautifully and without affectation or sentimentality. This was first published in 1994 by the Jane Goodall Institute, and information on the institute and on Goodall's 'Roots and Shoots' program for young people is included in notes at the end. -- Booklist

The material is rich, giving us both glimpses of Goodall's seminal fieldwork and stories about common family troubles, which are perhaps more easily told to children through animal behavior than in human terms. -- The New York Times Book Review, Amy Finnerty

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