Growing Up Gorilla
How a Zoo Baby Brought Her Family Together

Full disclosure: Clare is a friend and fellow member of Seattle7, a group of 67 writers to which I belong. Having said that, I must also say that Clare and I often talked about this book as she was writing it. Hence, I was anxious to read it in order to see not only the photographs of the animals wh......more

Not only gorilla fans will be drawn into these pages and touched by the true story of a baby finding its way back into a mother's arms and family love. Nadiri is a nineteen-year-old gorilla, who gives birth to a sweet baby, Yola. Unfortunately, she doesn't embrace the motherly role and walks away fro......more