Jane leaves the story dangling, unfortunately, since there’s not much point to it without knowing about Goodall’s adult impact (a small-print author’s note does provide some additional information) viewers will also need to check the copyright page to know that some of the included visual material is Goodall’s childhood work. Both texts are smooth and lucid, with McDonnell’s taking on a dreamy lyricism (“Jane could feel her own heart beating, beating, beating”) while Winter’s offers a gentle descriptive simplicity (“At night, after a supper of beans and tomatoes and onions, Jane listened to Mozart and Bach”). McDonnell’s focus is narrower, sticking largely to Goodall’s childhood and her fascination with animals in her backyard and in the books she read, while Winter expands her overview into Goodall’s work in Africa and her growing relationship with the Gombe chimpanzees. This spring brings us not one but two picture-book biographies about the great primate researcher Jane Goodall.
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