Our Children’s Book of the Month for December is I Did See a Mammoth by Alex Willmore.
A delightfully original story about embracing the unexpected – alongside themes of adventure and exploration from a multi-award-winning picture book-maker and Kate Greenaway Medal nominee.
Welcome to the Antarctic, where an intrepid bunch of explorers is making an in-depth study of penguins. Penguins. Penguins. Penguins. So many penguins . . .
But one young explorer has discovered something different. Something totally wild, spectacularly cool and quite a lot . . . EXTINCT.
Alex Willmore’s hilariously funny picture book brings the prehistoric woolly mammoth dancing, swimming and SKATEBOARDING back to life. But will anyone believe it?
Would YOU?
Features non-fiction information about the Antarctic setting and its incongruous visitor.
I Did See a Mammoth by Alex Willmore is available now for £7.99.
Alex Willmore is the bestselling illustrator of The Runaway Pea, winner of the Shropshire Bookfest Picture Book Award and the Federation of Children’s Book Groups Children’s Book Award, as well as being nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal and a finalist in the 2020 Oscar’s Book Prize. His other illustrator titles include The Runaway Pea Washed Away and The Runaway Pea Left Behind, along a string of author-illustrator titles, including The Great Paint, The Big Trip and It’s My Sausage, all of which have been translated into multiple languages. Alex lives in his hometown of Northampton with his wife and two children.