Is it just me, or are Woolly Mammoths just the sort of animals that you don’t really think about much? Certainly I don’t, yet Little Lou and the Woolly Mammoth
Little Lou is bored playing with her toys and wants someone to play with instead. She suddenly sees something move in her pile of toys and goes to investigate. Then she finds a woolly thread, so she following it and her adventure with her new woolly thread begins.
A woolly mammoth can seem quite scary when you’re only a little girl and an initial (sensible) response might be to run away, but then what if the woolly mammoth runs after you? And what if he then gets caught on something meaning that he starts to unravel and get smaller and smaller? Then he’s not so scary any more.
Little Lou and the Woolly Mammoth is a beautifully sweet story and prompted a lovely conversation with LMC about how things that can at first seem scary might not actually be so when you get to know them. When children are of an age when they can vocalise some of their fears I actually found the book really helpful in trying to get LMC to talk about some of the things that have been worrying her lately and to help her put them in context with other things going on in her life.
We both loved the illustrations in this book and LMC seemed to really related with Lou in particular. I just found the woolly mammoth incredibly cute – not something that I ever thought I’d say!
Little Lou and the Woolly Mammoth by Paula Bowles was published today (8th May 2014) by Bloomsbury and the paperback version is priced at £6.99.
Disclaimer: We were sent a copy of Little Lou and the Woolly Mammoth for the purposes of this review. This post contains affiliate links.
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