A boy and a jaguar
Record details
- ISBN: 9781490620619 (kit)
- ISBN: 1490620613 (kit)
- ISBN: 9781490619521 (disc)
- ISBN: 1490619526 (disc)
- ISBN: 9780547875071 (book)
- ISBN: 054787507X (book)
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Physical Description:
sound recording
sound disc
1 sound disc (15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (unpaged : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.) - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2014.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from container. Compact disc. In container (23 cm.). Accompanying book published in 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt with illustrations by Cátia Chien. "With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container. "The same text is on both tracks. Track 2 has page-turn signals."--Container. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrated by Adam Grupper. |
Summary, etc.: | Alan loves animals, but the great cat house at the Bronx Zoo makes him sad. Why are they all alone in bare cages? More than anything, he wants to be their champion--their voice--but he stutters uncontrollably. Except when he talks to animals. Then he is fluent. Follow the life of Dr. Alan Rabinowitz as he searches for his voice and fulfills a promise to speak for animals, and people, who cannot speak for themselves. This real-life story explores truths not defined by the spoken word. |
Target Audience Note: | 4 years and up. |
Awards Note: | Charter Oak Children’s Book Award (COCBA) Nominee, 2015-2016. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Rabinowitz, Alan 1953- Juvenile literature Wildlife conservationists United States Biography Juvenile literature Panthera Conservation Juvenile literature |
Genre: | Children's audiobooks. Audiobooks. |
Available copies
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- 0 of 0 copies available at Silas Bronson Library.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Author Notes
A Boy and a Jaguar
Alan Robert Rabinowitz was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 31, 1953. He received a bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry from Western Maryland College and a master's degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. His dissertation was about the ecology of the raccoon in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He became a leading big cat conservationist for the Wildlife Conservation Society. He established the world's first jaguar preserve in Belize and a vast tiger preserve in Myanmar. He co-founded the wild cat conservation organization Panthera in 2006. He wrote several books including Beyond the Last Village: A Journey of Discovery in Asia's Forbidden Wilderness; Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed; An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar; and A Boy and a Jaguar. He died from lymphatic cancer on August 5, 2018 at the age of 64. (Bowker Author Biography)