Growing Up Gorilla
How a Zoo Baby Brought Her Family Together
The birth of a new baby gorilla is exciting! But what happens when everything doesn’t go exactly as planned?
Nadiri, a western lowland gorilla living at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo, was herself born in a zoo, and after her mother rejected her, she was hand-raised by zookeepers. When she had a baby late in 2015, she wasn’t sure how to be a mother. But her baby needed her—gorilla babies learn how to be gorillas when they’re raised by gorillas.
The dedicated zoo staff worked tirelessly to care for the baby and find innovative ways for Nadiri to connect with her baby. Follow along as Nadiri and her caretakers learn from one another—and from Nadiri’s adorable gorilla baby, Yola—in this heartwarming true story.
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| Interest Level | Grade 3 - Grade 6 |
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| Reading Level | Grade 4 |
| Genre | Science |
| Category | 5 Kinds of Nonfiction, 5KN: Narrative Nonfiction, Animals |
| Copyright | 2020 |
| Publisher | Lerner Publishing Group |
| Imprint | Millbrook Press ™ |
| Language | English |
| Number of Pages | 48 |
| Publication Date | 2019-09-03 |
| Text Type | Narrative Nonfiction |
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| BISACS | JNF003010, JNF003330, JNF003200 |
| Dewey | 599.884 |
| Graphics | Full-color illustrations |
| Dimensions | 9.75 x 9.75 |
| Lexile | 1000 |
| Guided Reading Level | U |
| ATOS Reading Level | 6.4 |
| Accelerated Reader® Quiz | 503912 |
| Accelerated Reader® Points | 1.0 |
| Features | Author/Illustrator note, Awards, Bibliography/further reading, Glossary, Index, Maps, Primary source quotations/images, Sidebars, and Websites |
Author: Clare Hodgson Meeker
Clare Hodgson Meeker is the author of 12 children’s books, including the 2016 Junior Library Guild Selection Rhino Rescue! and the Smithsonian Notable Book Lootas, Little Wave Eater. She lives in Seattle and San Francisco and is a founding member of the indie folk band, The Righteous Mothers.
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Awards
- 2021 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books Finalist
- 2020 Washington State Book Award
- 2020 Animal Behavior Society Outstanding Children's Book Award Finalist
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
Reviews
Midwest Book Review
Growing Up Gorilla by Clare Hodgson Meeker is heartwarming true story chronicles what happened after a mother gorilla gave birth for the first time and then walked away from her newborn baby at Seattle’s Woodland Park. . . Profusely illustrated throughout with full color photography, and also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $9.99), “Growing Up Gorilla” is especially and unreservedly recommended for children ages 8-12 and will prove to be an enduringly popular addition to family, school, and community library Pets/Wildlife picture book collections.
School Library Journal
“This handsomely packaged and sturdily bound volume provides an intriguing look at how a team of humans nurtured and saved a gorilla family.”—School Library Journal
Kirkus Reviews
“Will provoke ‘content grunts’ in nature lovers.”—Kirkus Reviews