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This is a good book to read when doing a unit on extinct animals. This book is a work of fiction but it still would be a good book to read to students because it does not stray to far from the truth. This book this is also a good rhyming book. ( )

#81, 2006

Another book read in conjunction with our early people’s study. This one is written in verse, about a young cave boy who isn’t well-liked by his tribe, and gets “accidentally” abandoned. He manages to survive by speeding through several thousand years of evolution all by himself – he builds a wall around his cave entrance, domesticates a mammoth, and learns to grow his own food. And, of course, in the end his tribe returns and he manages to become a hero and save the day. It’s a cute enough book, but I didn’t find either the poetry nor the artwork to be charming enough for me to love it, and my son wasn’t particularly excited by it, either. ( )