You Are a Star, Jane Goodall

by Dean Robbins, Hatem Aly (Illustrator)

Overview

Make way for Jane Goodall!

It's Jane Goodall like you've never seen her before!

Using a unique mix of first-person narrative, hilarious comic panels, and essential facts, Dean Robbins introduces young readers to an scientific trailblazer. The second book in an exciting new nonfiction series, You Are a Star, Jane Goodall focuses on Jane's lifelong mission to understand the chimpanzees and protect the planet.

Hatem Aly's spot-on comic illustrations bring this icon to life, and engaging back matter instructs readers on how to be more like Jane!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338680126
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	04/04/2023
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	303,714
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	730L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

Hatem Aly is an Egyptian-born illustrator whose work has been featured in multiple publications worldwide. He is the illustrator of The Inquisitor’s Tale by Adam Gidwitz, which won a Newbery Honor. Hatem currently lives in the beautiful province of New Brunswick, Canada.
Dean Robbins is a journalist and the author of the children’s picture books Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing, and Miss Paul and the President: The Creative Campaign for Women's Right to Vote. His award-winning books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews and have been praised in the New York Times and USA Today. Dean grew up idolizing Apollo astronauts and loved working with Alan Bean on The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon. Learn more at deanrobbins.net.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for You Are a Star, Jane Goodall

"A warm testimonial to the life and achievements of Jane Goodall...An enticing invitation to be like the courageous and innovative primatologist profiled here."—Kirkus Reviews

"Charming...Easy and engaging, this is an energetic biography in a pleasing format and is a strong first puchase."—School Library Journal

Praise for You Are a Star, Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

"Can there be too many biographies of Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Robbins' contribution assures us the answer is no. ...Colorful and expressive." —Booklist

"Conversational first-person narrative, inset graphics, fact boxes, and appealing illustrations combine to paint a well-rounded picture of Ruth Bader Ginsburg...A warm, informative, and entertaining biography of a pioneering scholar, lawyer, and judge." —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

04/01/2023

Gr 3–5—In a charming first-person narration, Jane Goodall states how she went to Tanzania to study chimpanzees, but that at first, they kept running away from her. After spending some time on how she grew up in England, she was offered a chance to study chimpanzees when visiting Africa. Goodall grabbed the opportunity and went to Tanzania. The book covers her founding of research centers, travels, and the other significant discoveries and events that have made her the expert she remains to this day. Vivid, colorful cartoon drawings range from full page with a white panel for text and two smaller panels at the bottom calling out additional facts or ideas. Some pages are just a few panels with text in the white space. The back matter includes an author's note, time line, and bibliography. VERDICT Easy and engaging, this is an energetic biography in a pleasing format and a strong first purchase.—Tamara Saarinen

School Library Journal

2023-01-12
A warm testimonial to the life and achievements of Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most renowned scientists.

Not really updating Patrick McConnell’s Caldecott Honoree Me…Jane (2011) but offering a fresh and more richly anecdotal recap, Robbins assumes his subject’s voice to trace her progress from early immersion in natural history around her British home to adult observations of chimpanzees in Tanzania and eventual emergence as a world-traveling advocate for animal and environmental conservation. Tallying the names she gave numerous pets and chimps as she goes (though the local assistants who first helped her set up camp in Tanzania go unidentified), the narrator explains how she was able to get close enough to her study subjects to see them using tools, partying, and exhibiting other behaviors long thought exclusively human—and used some of what she learned to raise her own child. Along with a bulleted list of suggestions for readers who want to “Be Like Jane,” the backmatter includes a summary of Goodall’s discoveries and thumbnail profiles of six of her closest chimpanzee friends. In cleanly drawn scenes, Aly places her slender, confident-looking figure in settings both indoors and out, posing serenely with human groups diverse of age and race or sitting on the ground and interacting animatedly with smiling simians. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

An enticing invitation to be like the courageous and innovative primatologist profiled here. (author’s note, timeline, books by and about Goodall) (Picture-book biography. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews