THE BOY WHO SPOKE CHIMP
Cover by David Wiesner
Knopf 1981
ISBN# 0-394-94467 Knopf hardcover
ISBN# 0-394-84467-X Knopf paperback

A short science fiction novel about a runaway boy who catches a ride with a van delivering hand-signing chimps to a California lab. A big earthquake destroys the road, tips over the van, kills the driver, and boy and chimp have to make their way through a devastated countryside to San Francisco. The hardcover and paperback were published simultaneously by Knopf. The cover artist Wiesner went on to win the Caldecott years later.

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