Jane Goodall

By Roberta Edwards

Jubilee

106 Pages           
      Jane Goodall was born on April 3, of 1934, in London England to Mortimer Herbert Goodall who was an engineer, and to Margaret Joseph Goodall  who was an author. Jane is still living and is 80 years old. Jane grew up with her sister Judy.

 On Jane's 1st birthday she was given a stuffed chimp named Jubilee.  Ever since she got Jubilee Jane's favourite animal was a chimp. 

    When Jane was a little girl she was fascinated with animals and loved learning facts about them. Living in the country, Jane studied the animals on their acreage. Jane was a very smart girl and by the age of ten she decided what she wanted to do in her life. Jane wanted to be a scientist studying chimps!

  When Jane was a young women she graduated from high school. Africa has tons of chimps so Jane took a job as a waitress to save enough money to go to Africa for a month. while she was in Africa an Archaeologist named Louis Leakey hired her as a fossil digger. Louis Leakey saw that she was a hard worker and gave her a different job which was studying chimps. 

    

    Jane lived in a forest called Tanganyika. Jane was the first person to discover that chimps made tools to catch their food which was amazing because they are the only animals known to make tools.   Jane also discovered that chimp seat meat. One day Jane was out studying the chimps and one chimp reached out and held her hand. This was an amazing moment! Jane became known by National geographic magazines and soon was on TV

Jane got married to Hugo Van Lawick, who was a photographer, on March 28, 1964, in London. They worked together studying and taking pictures of chimps. On 1967 they had a son named Grub.

    This book was very interesting and told every fact about Jane Goodall's life. I would recommend it to children who are  inspired by studying animals and want to be involved with them when they grow up.