Title:
Jelly Beans the cheetah and hope / written by SissyMarySue ; illustrations by Jacob Peterson and Perpich Center students.
ISBN:
9781592989119
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Publication Information:
Edina, MN : Beavers Pond Press, [2014]
©2014
Physical Description:
28 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
General Note:
"Help save the endangered cheetah!"--Cover.
"Cheetah Conservation Fund"--Page 4 of cover.
"In this unique collaboration, the illustrators were all high school students when they began! The first two student illustrators attended Perpich Center for Arts Education. Shelby Graves masterfully created the Jelly Beans the Cheetah character... Kylie Yeigh is responsible for most of the people... [and created] the amazing cover based on the first image ever created for the story by Shelby [Graves]... Jacob Peterson... worked to polish the book and create a uniform aesthetic, modifying every page to provide even more cultural specifics to honor and accurately depict the Barabaig tribe"--Colophon.
An informational page about the Barabaig tribe and a page of critical thinking questions are included in the back of the book.
Summary:
"In Jelly Beans the cheetah and hope, the unlikely pairing of a sad little girl and a captured cheetah discover how much they share in common when they embark on an adventure in friendship... Set in Tanzania, Africa with the Barabaig tribe, the book encourages youth to identify with the characters as they experience difficulty, persevere, model empathy, and then are shown empathy by the tribe"--Page 4 of cover.
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OCLC Number:
ocn895713758
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