Primates by Jim Ottaviani

Ottaviani, J. (2013). Primates.NY: FirstSecond.


Interest Level  12 years+



Summary 

Another book with an interesting design is Primates by Jim Ottaviani.  In this book, Ottaviani covers three women researchers, Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas, as they observe and document different primates.  He wrote it as a graphic novel.  All three of their stories are told through comic pictures type illustrations and dialogue bubbles.  What a great way to get students to read a biographies or nonfiction books in general! He also includes a bibliography to document the accuracy of his research and lists other good books that students might be interested in.    

Example pages from the book