Feel free to share Chizi with the Trick or Treaters in your neighborhood. To print, simply click on the image. Let’s do what we can to save our rhinos!

Chizi’s Tale Fun Pack Activity Kit

Calling all parents, teachers and counselors—we’re on a mission to help save the black rhino and we hope you’ll join us!

Chizi’s Tale: The True Story of an Orphaned Black Rhino, written by high schooler Jack Jones and illustrated by Jacqui Taylor, tells the story of two park rangers in Zimbabwe who found an abandoned baby black rhino. They called the local park manager who, knowing the baby rhino would not survive alone, took him home and named him Chizi. Chizi still lives with the park manager and his family and when he’s mature enough, he will be released back into the wild.

Black rhinos are critically endangered. Saving Chizi and helping him return to his natural habitat is vital to helping his species survive.  Author Jack Jones has partnered with Tusk USA and is donating 100% of the proceeds from the sale of Chizi’s Tale to Tusk USA to help save black rhinos. But if conservation efforts are to succeed, it is imperative that education be promoted at an early age. To that end, we’ve put together a very special Chizi’s Tale Fun Pack Activity Kit—and invite you to share Chizi’s Tale whenever—and wherever—you can. Click here to download your Fun Pack today!

In Zimbabwe during a recent August, two park rangers made a surprising discovery. They found an abandoned baby black rhino, only days old. They called the park manager who, knowing the rhino could not survive alone, did something as surprising as the discovery itself: he took the baby rhino home. Chizi’s Tale is the true story of that baby rhino. Chizi still lives with the park manager, his wife, and their children until he matures and can be released back into the wild. Written by  a young author determined to share Chizi’s story as a way to help save the black rhino, Chizi’s Tale is a remarkable, moving story about an endearing and vulnerable rhino and the brave family helping him. Black rhinos are critically endangered. Saving Chizi and helping him to return to his natural habitat is vital to helping his species survive.

And so, this September we welcome the publication of Chizi’s Tale: The True Story of An Orphaned Black Rhino, a children’s picture book written by Jack Jones, a high school senior, and illustrated by Jacqui Taylor (Pub. date September 8th, Keras.)

Jack Jones is a senior in high school at Brunswick School in Connecticut, where he is on the football, wrestling, and tennis teams. Every summer since he was a child, he has travelled to Africa where he has learned the importance of preserving and protecting nature. He is the youngest of four children, and he likes surfing, writing, and New York Giants football.

Jacqui Taylor lives in Zimbabwe. She wrote and illustrated A Hong Kong ABC, An African ABC, A Baobab is Big, and The Queen of Green.

The Wenham family, with whom Chizi lives, and illustrator Jacqui Taylor will travel to the U.S. in September for select appearances. Colin Wenham has worked in the field of conservation for the past 25 years and has had extensive experience in game capture and management of Southern African animals, which include both species of rhino. He has a deep passion for wildlife and wild places and believes in protecting them for future generations.

All proceeds from the book sales will be donated to Tusk. Tusk has built a reputation for identifying and supporting an impressive range of conservation and sustainable community development and initiatives right across Africa. The charity, whose Royal Patron is Prince William, The Duke of Cambridge, invests in programs which use conservation as a tool to alleviate poverty, improve education and reduce conflict, while also protecting areas rich in biodiversity. Funding is focused on the protection of endangered species and habitats, construction of schools, implementation of water projects and improving livelihoods through the creation of nature-based enterprise. Tusk is highly efficient in delivering donor funds with the maximum possible impact. (Tusk is UK Registered Charity No 803118. Tusk USA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. EIN 30-0190986.)

Please help save the black rhino—tell everyone you know about Chizi’s Tale and pre-order your copy today! Or pick one up at your favorite local bookstore beginning September 8.

I finally met Chizi! What an experience. It was the most surreal moment of my life. The Park Rangers and the Saxon family introduced him to me on Thursday. He was a little shy in the beginning, but after he sniffed me a couple of times he relaxed and warmed up to me. I got to bottle feed him his daily ten liters of milk and touch him. After I fed him, he was very tired and took a midday nap just like a baby. His skin is very rough and cracked like an old suitcase; however, the skin around his eyes and mouth are very soft and spongey like velvet