This is one in a series of stand-alone books briefly detailing the lives of inspirational women. This one is about the famed primatologist Jane Goodall. She loved chimpanzees but could not afford to go to university to study them so she worked hard for her passage to Africa and through tireless work and dedication managed to create her dream career doing what she loved. The book also touches on the importance of conservation work. It’s aimed at four to seven year olds and is utterly charming with delightful illustrations and a brilliant message regarding achieving your goals and the significance of the environment.

Fun fact: I love monkeys of every size and form. I also love this feminist picture book series and thoroughly enjoyed this volume, Jane Goodall being a fascinating role model. This one in particular had the most detailled, adorable illustrations. The chimpanzees' expressions - cuuuuuuute! My boyfriend, a man of 27 years, was sitting next to me while I was looking at it, and went "wait, go back to the last page, I want to look at it again!" So it's definitely recommended as a goodnight story book for little and great apes.

This wasn't my favorite entry into the series, although I think Goodall is a terrific woman to profile for it. I felt that the author jumped into her story without enough introduction and it was a bit of a jarring start. Overall I would still recommend this for kids though!

I requested this book as I have to confess that I had no idea who Jane Goodall is - but now I do! As always this book is beautifully illustrated and cleverly tells the story of Jane's life. There are life lessons about perseverance, dedication, and conservation - the need to look after the land and animals around us.

Highly recommended for young readers who are interested in animals and wildlife.

Many thanks to Quarto Publishing Group and NetGalley for providing this book in exchange for an honest review.

I reviewed this book for Lincoln Children’s Books. It’s part of the Little People, Big Dreams series and tells about the life of Jane Goodall.

Jane Goodall has been a very determined woman from her early childhood on. She knew early on what she wanted to do in life and she continues to not only do that, she continues to inspire people.
This small book brings Jane Goodall to young readers, exactly the right age to be inspired by her example.

Jane Goodall is one of my heroines and I love this version of her story for little people. It's so important for children to have role models and this book is a great way to introduce children to a great woman.

A wonderful addition to the Little People, Big Dreams series. I love seeing new children's books about strong female scientists. This one will be on my list for older children story time programming next Fall. I can see an entire environmental/conservationist program forming with this book at its heart.

This is another in a series of books aimed at doing its part to redress the imbalance between genders when it comes to high achievers. This one shows young children that a determined young woman can do whatever she wants if she puts a mind to it.

The story simplifies Goodall's interesting and complex life considerably, but hopefully it will inspire children to read more about her as they mature. Her story is one of an abiding interest in animals ever since she was young, inspired in part by a plush toy she had as a child: a chimpanzee. From this simple beginning, she found her way to Africa and came into contact with famous human ancestry researcher Louis Leakey, who eventually dispatched her to work at Gombe, where Goodall's unorthodox research practices were at times criticized, but which nonetheless produced original and unexpected research results.

Goodall was one of three Leaky Ladies, so to speak, whom Leakey named 'The Trimates', the other two being Dian Fossey who died horribly at the hands of gorilla poachers, and Birutė Galdikas, who studied orangutans. Each of these has written one or more books on their studies. It would be nice to see a book in this series for each of the other two women. I commend this one as a great start.

A beautiful and interesting account of Dr. Goodall. I especially enjoyed the artwork and how the author was able to interweave simplistic details about Goodall's journey into the narrative in such an enjoyable fashion.

I love these picture book introductions to famous women of history.

And I espcially love that I learned things about Jane Goodall that I didn't know before.

Little things, such as she received a stuffed monkey as a child, and that was the start of her being interested in chimps and apes

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Or that the professor that she worked with in Africa was Louis Leakey, the man who discovered Lucy, one of the most improtant fossil finds on ancient human kind.

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Great little book, and a good introduction to the work that Jane Goodall did to get she is. I recommend this book for home and classroom.

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Isabel is able to impress Jane's biography in a short book. The illustrations and the biographical facts are amazing and well explained for the young audience.

This is a wonderful book about Jane Goodell that any child will enjoy and understand. It sparks an interest in Jane and her lifetime of work.

This was the one I was most excited to be able to review. This look into an iconic figure not only ventures into the animal kingdom and will hopefully inspire young readers to conserve and protect, it demonstrates that a professional future is possible without higher education.

This is the first Little People, Big Dreams book I have read, and I have been considering ordering them from my library. Between the gorgeous illustrations and simple summary of Jane’s life, this is a must have! While I was originally thinking this series would compare along the lines of Itty Bitty Bios, I think it would better serve the upper elementary aged students at my school because the vocabulary is more complex. I enjoyed that there was a timeline at the end of the book as well. Thank you, NetGalley for the ARC!

Once more, I'm utterly enchanted by this latest addition to the Little People, Big Dreams series.
Such an amazing, empowering concept!

I really like that with Jane Goodall the series is starting to include more "recent" heroines as well.
She might be more easy to relate to for young children, because she lives in the same world/time as they do.

I love the way the illustrations mix fantasy with the reality of the facts the author is telling us. For example, when we read about Jane's mother and the bedtime stories she told her little girl, both characters are shown against the backdrop of a magical nighttime, jungle-like landscape.

We learn about Jane Goodall, and we also learn a bit about chimpanzees. I think this is a perfect little book to inspire curiosity and a thirst for learning in young minds!

I adored this book about Jane Goodall. Early elementary age children will learn about Jane while enjoying adorable and warm illustrations. Adults will enjoy reading this book with or to a younger child. I particularly like the timeline that is included at the end of each of the Little People, Big Dreams books, which gives additional information about the subject's life.

Una delle (molte) cose che amo in questa serie è la varietà di persone che presenta: scrittrici, politiche, avventuriere, artiste, scienziate.

Scienziate come Jane Goodall, fin da bambina innamorata degli animali, che in quarant'anni di vita nella foresta ha studiato gli scimpanzé per portarli più vicini a noi, e che adesso lotta senza tregua per custodirne l'habitat.

Un altro gioiellino illustrato alla perfezione, con testi precisi e suggestivi.

This book tells the story of how Jane Goodall got interested in chimpanzees from a very early age and what she did to follow her dreams. This is the first book I read from this series and I’m in loved! It’s quite difficult to find children’s books with strong female characters, and I can see myself buying most of the series for my daughter.

The illustrations are beautiful. The language is quite simple, but a bit dry for my taste sometimes. I actually enjoyed more the summary at the end of the book.

The book has a minor typo: it says it was originally published in Spain under the title Jane Austen! Not a big deal anyway.

Another great addition to the Little People, Big Dream series. I'd highly recommend for any young child who you want to introduce to great historical figures. Goodall's in particular is great for children who love animals. Also cool is that they list a few other children's biography books about the person on the back cover.