Jelly Beans the cheetah and hope

2014 — by SissyMarySue, Perpich Center Students and Jacob Peterson

"In Jelly Beans the cheetah and hope, the unlikely pairing of a sad little girl and a captured cheetah discover how much they share in common when they embark on an adventure in friendship... Set in Tanzania, Africa with the Barabaig tribe, the book encourages youth to identify with the characters as they experience difficulty, persevere, model empathy, and then are shown empathy by the tribe"--Page 4 of cover

Themes

Genres: Fiction

Categories: Cross Group, Incidental

Settings: Eastern Africa, United Republic of Tanzania

Ethnicity: Tanzanian, Unspecified

Gender: Boy/Man, Girl/Woman

Race/Culture: Black/African/African American, Brown-Skinned and/or Race Unspecified

Cross Group Sub: Direct, Non-Central, Positive

Character Prominence: Secondary

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Author	SissyMarySue
ISBNs	9781592989119 159298911X
Title	Jelly Beans the cheetah and hope
Publication Notice	Edina, MN : Beaver's Pond Press 2014
Physical Description	28 pages :
Note	"Cheetah Conservation Fund"--Page 4 of cover An informational page about the Barabaig tribe and a page of critical thinking questions are included in the back of the book "In this unique collaboration, the illustrators were all high school students when they began! The first two student illustrators attended Perpich Center for Arts Education. Shelby Graves masterfully created the Jelly Beans the Cheetah character... Kylie Yeigh is responsible for most of the people... [and created] the amazing cover based on the first image ever created for the story by Shelby [Graves]... Jacob Peterson... worked to polish the book and create a uniform aesthetic, modifying every page to provide even more cultural specifics to honor and accurately depict the Barabaig tribe"--Colophon
Summary	"In Jelly Beans the cheetah and hope, the unlikely pairing of a sad little girl and a captured cheetah discover how much they share in common when they embark on an adventure in friendship... Set in Tanzania, Africa with the Barabaig tribe, the book encourages youth to identify with the characters as they experience difficulty, persevere, model empathy, and then are shown empathy by the tribe"--Page 4 of cover
Subject - Topical	Cheetah / Juvenile fiction Human-animal relationships / Juvenile fiction Barabaig (African people) / Juvenile fiction Barabaig (African people) Cheetah Human-animal relationships
Subject - Geographical	Tanzania / Juvenile fiction Tanzania
Genre/Form	Fiction Juvenile works
Additional Corporate Entities	Perpich Center for Arts Education. Cheetah Conservation Fund.