![]() Winter’s gorgeous acrylic-paint-and-ink scenes of the forests start out featuring chimps peeking from behind trees and sleeping in nests made in high branches, but after one distinguished-looking chimp approaches Goodall and takes bananas from her hand, other chimps allow her to be near them and study them. At first, Goodall heard their calls but couldn’t see them. Winter then focuses on Goodall’s patience in getting to know the chimpanzees. Concisely told and charmingly illustrated, the picture book begins with 5-year-old Jane waiting to witness how a hen lays an egg. ![]() In “ The Watcher,” author-illustrator Jeannette Winter manages to convey Goodall’s story and much about the chimpanzees of Gombe that she has worked hard to save from extinction. Dolittle, she talked to the animals, but mostly she observed them. Inspired by animals and the fictional heroes who communed with them, Jane Goodall got herself from the English countryside to a remote African forest in her early 20s and found her calling. ![]()
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