Robbins, Dean

Summary: "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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GOO

Robinson, Claire

Summary: Describes a family of chimpanzees living in Africa, covering what they eat, how they care for their young, how they communicate, and more.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.885 ROB

Tuma, Refe

Summary: "Frances Stenzel was just trying to prove her scientific worth to her parents ... instead, she reawakened her great-grandfather's secret and most terrible invention. Before it can destroy the town, she sets off after it ... and she'll have to face ... angry locals and an unexpected friendship ... while the trail for the monster goes cold and time is running out before her science career, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TUM

Lang, Suzanne

Summary: "Jim has been asked to egg-sit, but he wants to have fun with his friends. Is there a way he can do both?--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR Green Lang

Summary: Looks back at Jane Goodall's career as a primatologist, animal rights advocate, and environmental activist. Comprised of present-day interview segments with Goodall and archival footage of her work studying chimpanzees at Tanzania's Gombe National Park shot by Hugo van Lawick in the 1960s for National Geographic.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: [Distributed by] 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JAN

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JAN

Summary: "Folkmanis BABY CHIMPANZEE is a hug-able puppet that can be any child's best friend. With a movable mouth and sweet expression, he is fun for playtime, naptime or taking him on the road as a travel buddy." --

Format: three dimensional object

Publisher / Publication Date: Folkmanis 2010

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Puppet, Call number: PPT 10

Attenborough, David

Summary: Follows the lives of five endangered animals as they struggle against rivals and the forces of nature to survive.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2019

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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DYN

Cohen, Jon

Summary: How are we different from chimps? Scientists have focused on the similarities between the two species, when in fact it is an understanding of their differences that can reveal "what, exactly, it means to be human." Cohen's survey spans investigations into the chimp genome, brain, and physiognomy,

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.93 COH