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I’m Lucy: A Day in the Life of a Young Bonobo

Mathea Levine

Marian Brickner

Jane Goodall

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Smythe Sewn Case Printed | 32 pages ISBN: 978-0-615-18110-3

Summary

Meet Lucy. She’s a bonobo and she’s a lot like you! In this story, you’ll learn about Lucy and her family and see amazing photographs that will make you laugh out loud. What is a bonobo? Bonobos are our closest great ape relatives who live in a uniquely peaceful and matriarchal society. Tragically, scientists predict bonobo extinction within 10 years unless humans protect them and their habitat, the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Africa. YOU CAN HELP! All profits from I’m Lucy go to the Bonobo Conservation Initiative and Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots program – organizations working to save the bonobos and the Earth. Learn more on our website: www.bonobokids.org. Login with the special code inside this book for your very own virtual bonobo friend and earn points for helping endangered creatures and our world. Take the Bonobo Challenge by joining our blog community and find out how you can make a real and ongoing difference. Features a special afterword by world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall!

About the Author

Mathea Levine is the author of children’s books, young adult and adult novels. Inspired by her renowned biologist mother’s passion for the Earth and its creatures and driven by her desire for her children’s safe and joyous future, Mathea partnered with outstanding nature photographer Marian Brickner to create a captivating story of a bonobo family - a family that represents all endangered animals and that signifies the current crisis of our planet. Raised in St. Louis and on the island of Martha’s Vineyard and educated at NYU, Mathea brings passion, wit and heart to the world through her writing.

About the Photographer

Marian Brickner is a native of New York and graduated from State University of New York, Potsdam. She moved to St. Louis in 1983 and has worked as a professional photographer since then. Marian traveled to Nairobi in the summer of 2001 with members of Doctors Without Borders and photographed surgeries at the Kenya National Hospital. She has been photographing bonobos for over seven years and is overjoyed that her pictures and Mathea’s words are now in the hands of the world’s children. Look out for Marian’s next book that traces the family tree of the original captive bonobos.

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