The story starts with a few spreads detailing her childhood as a curious child who loved to learn by watching things, and like Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, Jeanette visually paces the pages with borders containing her life until she goes to Africa, where the pages become 3/4 full then totally full with no borders as the text awakens with the sounds and sights of the rain forest. This is what I came into this world to do”. Both the words and the illustrations open up as Jane realizes Africa is her home and watching is her life, “This is where I belong.
The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps, takes the reader on Jane’s amazing life journey from watching chickens as a five year old to watching chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania The story, told with simple, quiet, engaging text, and quotes from Jane’s autobiography, Africa in My Blood and My Life with the Chimpanzees, is a perfect fit with the soothing-colored acrylics. It is not often a person sticks to a dream from childhood to adult, however, Jane Goodall, always the observer, knew this was the life for her. This one was published by Schwartz and Wade, who do beautiful books. Jeanette Winters has written and illustrated many contemporary biographies and in today's example, you'll see why she's so good at them.
Older biographies tended to be much drier with a straightforward "and then and then" march from childhood to death with the subject's accomplishments thrown in the middle somewhere. Contemporary biographies usually focus on a specific incident in the subject's life and employ plot devices of three attempts and failures before achieving their goal. With the advent of Common Core, there's been a new and refreshing openness to biographies.
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