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Martin, Jacqueline Briggs

The Chiru of High Tibet: A True Story

40 pp. | Houghton | October, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-0-618-58130-6 $17.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Linda Wingerter. The antelope-like chiru of northern Tibet were hunted nearly to extinction for their soft wool. Wildlife champion George Schaller hoped to save the chiru by protecting their birthing ground--but first he had to find it. Martin's account, brief and dramatic, is nicely amplified in Wingerter's art, evoking Tibet's windswept plains and peaks in rosy sunset colors and twilight blues. Bib.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2010