Informational text AND graphic novel? What better way to learn about three amazing women who, without formal degrees or really any training, paved the way for female scientific researchers and the study of primates. Jane Goodall, Dianne Fossey, and Birute Galdikas's stories of tromping through jungles and closely observing their respective primates is both informational and appealing as presented.
Ottaviani, J. (2013). Primates. NY: FirstSecond.
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- Presenting an informational text in the form of a graphic novel is incredibly appealing to young readers. It is sort of like combining a great picture book with a very well written non-fiction book. Beyond the author’s own style that is shown in regards to “distinctiveness in the presentation of the information,” the voice and attitude of the three women that the book tells the story of is very well presented. Their passion and strength is felt as the reader sees the comic book like images and reads the powerful words of their work. As the afterword stated, most of this book is true, but some is made up or altered, creating the fictional characteristics that help the book flow and help intrigue the reader to pick it up and continue to read it. This book is a great example of the “quality nonfiction that is just a worthwhile as a experience as a good novel.”
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