![]() ![]() The tone is lively but respectful, with a moving account of Fossey’s difficulties and death: “Most people just didn’t understand her,” writes Jane. While Fossey tells us about “the one who taught me how to track gorillas,” the accompanying sequence of twelve panels shows us just how initially hopeless she was at the task. In a neat division of labor, the scientists (occasionally including Leakey) themselves narrate the story in captions that can be read continuously, with color and font indicating who’s narrating, while speech balloons and the small, tidy comic illustrations take readers to each present moment. The book proceeds chronologically, starting with Goodall’s childhood, her meeting with anthropologist Louis Leakey, and her early work in Gombe, and then braiding in the accounts of Fossey and Galdikas as Leakey recruited them. ![]() Middle School, High School First Second/Roaring Brook 140 pp.Ī graphic format admirably propels this lightly fictionalized group biography of “Leakey’s Angels”: Jane Goodall (chimps in Rwanda), and Biruté Galdikas (orangutans in Borneo). ![]() ![]() Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas ![]()
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