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This is a straightforward book about mammoths; where they lived, what they ate, how they died, what kinds there were, how we know about them... Lots of nice pictures of mammoths. However, you should be warned that not only does it have lots of lovely latin mammoth names (rehearse before reading), it also has lots of pictures of people hunting, slaughtering, and using mammoths. The fourth or fifth time we read it, my daughter got wide-eyed at the people using fire to drive a mammoth off a cliff and then spearing it. "That's not OK!" she said, leading to the sort of moral conversation that is perhaps not how I planned to start my morning (we read a waking-up book as well as 2 bedtime books). The following page has the mammoth being slaughtered, complete with pictures, and my husband woke up to that description.

I'm all for realism, but I'm thinking this one is coming out of the bedtime/morning rotation. ( )