Books by Jane Goodall and Complete Book Reviews

Jane Goodall, Retold by, Alexander Reichstein, Illustrator, Jane Goodall, Author Michael Neugebauer Book $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7358-1380-9
World-renowned chimpanzee authority Goodall (Dr. White) retells a favorite fable from her childhood, closing with a personal anecdote. The birds of the world squabble about who can fly the highest, and the owl devises a contest to settle the...
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Jane Goodall, Author . Scholastic/Preiss $17.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-439-21310-3
Striking an admirable balance between scientific reporting and deep affection, Goodall's (My Life with the Chimpanzees) impassioned introduction to the creatures to whom she's dedicated her life's work may well ignite in readers a...
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Jane Goodall, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.95 (268p) ISBN 978-0-395-50081-1
Her first 10 years at Gombe (Tanzania) on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika produced the classic In the Shadow of Man. A fitting successor to that work, Goodall's newest continues the saga of the chimpanzee families with an engrossing account of...
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Jane Goodall, Author, J. Goodall, Author, J. Litty, Author NorthSouth $15.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-7358-1063-1
""It was a cold, wet morning. Dr. White dashed to the hospital. He was late,"" begins this affectionate tale starring a true hero to many children in critical condition. Litty (Lumina) carefully disguises the doctor's identity in her illustrations...
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Jane Goodall, Author, Gary McAvoy, With, Gail Hudson, With , with Gary McAvoy and Gail Hudson. Warner $24.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-446-53362-1
Goodall, best known for her decades of work with chimpanzees and baboons, turns to the social significance of the food people eat and of how it reaches our tables. In a style that's both persuasive and Pollyannaish, her guide glides through a...
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Jane Goodall, Author, Marc Bekoff, Joint Author . Harper San Francisco $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-251757-9
Goodall (My Life with Chimpanzees; Reason for Hope) and Bekoff, a biology professor at the Univ. of Colorado, offer a prescriptive conservation plan designed to protect animals as well as help educate people about the importance of saving both...
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Jane Goodall, Author, Dale Peterson, Editor , edited by Dale Peterson. Houghton Mifflin $28 (432p) ISBN 978-0-618-12520-3
The second volume of primatologist Goodall's personal and professional correspondence, this book is a welcome sequel to the critically acclaimed Africa in My Blood. Like that collection, it is edited by Goodall's sometime coauthor Dale...
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Jane Goodall, Author, Dale Peterson, Editor Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-395-85404-4
No one, perhaps, has done more for great apes than Goodall, whose decades of work with Kenyan chimpanzees showed the rest of the world how chimps live--how they use tools, eat, sleep, have sex, raise their young, fight, make peace--demonstrating...
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Jane Goodall, illus. by Feeroozeh Golmohammadi. Minedition (IPG, dist.), $14.99 (48p) ISBN 978-988-8240-49-4
Anthropologist and conservationist Goodall and Iranian artist Golmohammadi present a nondenominational prayer for peace and equality with emphases on the human impact on the Earth ("We pray... that we may strive to heal the hurts/ that we have...
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Jane Goodall, Author, Phillip Berman, With Warner Books $32 (304p) ISBN 978-0-446-52225-0
The world's most famous, and perhaps most beloved, female scientist has previously related much of her life's outer journey--most notably in In the Shadow of Man and Through a Window, which described her groundbreaking work with the chimpanzees of...
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Jane Goodall, Author, Alan Marks, Illustrator , illus. by Alan Marks. North-South $6.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7358-1815-6
" These vignettes of varying length—based on Goodall's observations of nearly 40 years in the Tanzanian bush—lay bare the remarkable relationships of several chimpanzees without sentimentality. This volume will surely get...
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Jane Goodall, Author, Alan Marks, Illustrator Penguin Young Readers Group $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-698-40002-3
Jane Goodall tells of Rickie and Henri: A True Story, illus. by Alan Marks. Rickie, a young chimpanzee is orphaned when hunters kill his mother, then attempt to sell him in a Congolese market. A ""tall man"" rescues and nurses Rickie, and the man's...
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Jane Goodall, Author, Thane Maynard, With, Gail Hudson, With with Thane Maynard and Gail Hudson. Grand Central $27.99 (392p) ISBN 978-0-446-58177-6
With the resurgence of red wolves and California condors, there is good news on the species front, as chronicled in this collection of success stories by renowned chimp researcher Goodall. Section one recounts the revival of six mammal and bird...
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Jane Goddall, Author, Jane Goodall, Author, Goodall, Author Aladdin Paperbacks $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-66095-6
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. The story of her life with the chimpanzees of Gombe has long been available to adults; in this book she...
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Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams. Celadon, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-78409-4
This illuminating conversation between naturalist Goodall (Reason for Hope) and Abrams (coauthor, The Book of Joy) teases out Goodall’s thoughts on why one should feel hopeful in “dark times.” According to Goodall, there are “four main reasons for...
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Jane Goodall, illus. by Daishu Ma. Minedition, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-66265-040-6
Primatologist Goodall (The Eagle & the Wren) protests the endangered species trade with the story of Pangolina, a wide-eyed, thoughtful pangolin, who describes her mother’s care (“Every night she went out to get food, always returning so I could...
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