![]() ![]() The forests of Belize are seen as deeply gray-green, a few animal faces peeking from the thick growth of vegetation. Chien’s acrylic-and–charcoal-pencil art is filled with light and warm, rich colors, her edge-to-edge illustrations inviting, emotional and engaging. ![]() In a triumphant moment, he helps persuade Belize to set aside land as a jaguar preserve. In college, he finds ways to manage his stuttering as an adult, he studies black bears and, later, jaguars. He promises the sad, caged jaguar at the Bronx Zoo that one day he will be a voice for the animals. But he can talk with his own small menagerie at home-in fact, he says, he can only speak fluently when he is singing or when he talks to animals. The narrator explains his teachers must think he is “broken” when he is switched from his regular class due to his severe stuttering. A simple memoir recounts a lifelong bond between a child who felt “broken” and the animals, especially jaguars, that have informed his life’s work. ![]()
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