Woolly Mammoth
PreSchool-Grade 3—In keeping with their usual style, Manning and Granström pair rhyming couplets, in this case describing the life of a mammoth, alongside columns of information. Simple pencil drawings fill sidebars with specific details about these huge beasts, including their habitat and natural enemies, their physical characteristics and behavior. Emphasis is placed on how primitive humans hunted mammoths to survive. Bright watercolor-over-pencil paintings dominate the pages, which feature simple stanzas that deliver the mammoth's side of the story: "My massive tusks can push, dig or slice/As I forage for plants beneath snow and ice./I'm a veggie warrior with bull-neck power!/Yet my delicate truck can pick the tiniest flower./I am a gentle giant." While occasionally forced, these rhymes carry the tone of the accompanying facts.—Janet S. Thompson, Chicago Public LibraryCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.