Jane Goodall is a great addition of a Historical Woman in the “Little People, Big Dreams” collection. This is a wonderful introduction to children of Jane Goodall . It starts with her childhood when she was given a toy chimpanzee named Jubilee and how her mom would read her bedtime stories about the jungle. When she grew up, she traveled to Africa and met a scientist named Louis Leakey who gave her an opportunity to study apes. She spent the next 40 years sitting, studying, observing, and becoming friends with chimpanzees. She has spent her whole life defending wildlife and nature. She is an example of a strong woman that is good for all children to learn about.

This is a truly inspiring story in a continually inspiring series.

Jane Goodall knew what she wanted from a young age and figured out a way to realize her dream. Starting from the moment that her father gave her a stuffed animal named Jubilee, Jane was in love with chimpanzees. Unable to afford university, she made her way to Africa, met Leakey and began to patiently observe chimps in the wild. Touchingly, she named the animals and did not only see them as research subjects. Through patient study, Jane learned a great deal and made an amazing discovery (read the book to find out what this was). In later years, she has fought tirelessly for our environment.

Jane is a determined woman and her story will encourage young readers to be determined in setting and keeping to their own biggest hopes and dreams.

Highly recommended! Thanks to NetGalley, Quarto and the author for this excellent entry in an excellent series.

Oh wow. Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow.
In this series, María Isabel Sánchez Vegara charts the lives of incredible women throughout history from their start as just young children with big dreams, to people who changed the world. Honestly, it is wonderful - we need to show children that they can follow in these people’s footsteps; that they can reach for the stars and become whoever they want to be. And, Jane Goodall is someone that children everywhere need to be talking about. A disproportionate amount of young women are seeing Goodall’s as viable options, and we need to show them that this amazing woman did it, so they can too! I mean, what little kid doesn’t love animals and wants to be a zookeeper? So where down the line are they discourage out of a career with them? Goodall’s story will show them that, if they work hard enough, childhood dreams don’t have to be pushed aside.
Read it for your children, read it for yourself - just read it and be inspired.

I loved this introduction to Jane Goodall for the Little People, Big Dreams series. It's fun, informative, and the artwork is gorgeous. Children and their families will be inspired by Goodall's tenacity and dedication to the animals and environment. Great addition to the series!

In this interesting entry of the “Little People Big Dreams” series, we see how the famous scientist became fascinated by animals and went off to Africa instead of college, where she was in the right place at the right time to meet a famous scientist and launch her career.
This is my favorite in the series, even though I’ve never had an affinity for animal science. This one’s more inspirational, and will probably get a lot of little girls interested in the environment and saving the animals.

This Little People, Big World series is outstanding! I have seen a few Littens on Litsy reviewing these books, and I simply knew I had to check them out. Sadly, my library doesn't have any of the collection... so you can imagine how excited I was to see these books on NetGalley. I have read about 4-5 others on NetGalley, and I simply adore them. Going into this one... I didn't really know much about Jane Goodall, but now I want to know more about her. The books are short, sweet, and beautifully illustrated. They are colorful, and exciting and they make learning fun for young children. They make learning fun for young ones, and I just can't get enough. I hope I can find the whole collection for my nieces and nephews.

A huge thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I truly appreciate it!

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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Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

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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.