Listen!By Stephanie S. Tolan

To understand any living thing, you must creep within and feel the beating of its heart.” -W. Macneil Dixon

Main Characters

• Charley• Paul Morgan• Sarita• Sadie• Coyote• Mrs. Davis

Setting

Eagle Lake in North Carolina

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” –John

Muir

Trivia

• Why is Charley alone for the summer?• Who’s voices does Charley often hear

in her mind?• Why does Charley avoid the trail in

the woods?• What is the name of the lake she

walks around each day to tame Coyote?

• Describe what is happening the first time Coyote touches Charley.

• Compare and contrast Sadie and Coyote.• What does Charley find in the

workroom? How does she feel when she looks at it?

• Charley often sees pictures of what happens to Coyote. What is your opinion, or thoughts on that?

“Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.”-St. Bernard of Clairvaux

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” -

Marcel Proust

• How long does it take for Charley to be able to touch Coyote?

• Describe what is happening to Charley’s feelings as the summer comes to an end.

• Why do you think that Charley wanted to visit Tree in the canoe?

• How does Charley get Coyote into the house?

“Nobody sees a flower-really- it is so small it takes time- we haven’t time-and to see takes time, like to have a

friend takes time.”- Georgia O”Keeffe

• What does Charley learn about Sarita at the end of the story?

• Why do you think the author named the book Listen!?

Jane Goodall

www.janegoodall.org

Nature Photography

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