How to Speak Chimpanzee

by Richard Brassey

Book Overview

From grunt to greeting, Richard Bassey introduces 27 everyday essential phrases that no child or chimp can do without. Based on research at the Monkey World Chimpanzee Rescue Centre in England, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517708981
• ISBN13: 9780517708989
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.7" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

A fun book for kids interested in chimpanzees

This slim book offers "translations" of basic chimp vocalizations and expressions, and tips on how humans can reproduce them. The illustrations are a little clumsy (no photographs here), but they help kids understand the verbal points. A lot of fun for anyone who has an affinity toward these closely related primates.

How to Speak Chimpanzee

Richard Brassey has created a picture book of ways to understand chimps' gestures and sounds. The illustrations are large,colorful and easy to interpret. As an elementary classroom teacher, I have used this book before our annual zoo field trip. After my students understand that the facial expressions and noises made by these intelligent animals are their way of communicating with each other, they have a new respect and curiosity about them. It is also fun to make faces like those of the chimps in the book and have the real life animals interact with us. A delightful book,it teaches all of us to marvel at the intelligence of this lovable primate.