John Grant — Littlenose the Hero

Simon & Schuster Children's 2006 Paperback, 112pp. Littlenose lives long, long, ago, when fierce wild animals roam the land, and it is very cold. His home is a cave, his clothes are made of fur, and his pet is a woolly mammoth called Two-Eyes. Wherever he goes, Littlenose the Neanderthal finds himself amid all sorts of entertaining antics. He doesn't go to school but still has plenty to learn: how to track animals, how to find his way through the forest and which berries are good to eat, and which are poisonous. But whether he's exploring caves, taking a trip down the river, or rescuing his father from a deep pit, somehow Littlenose always seems to end up in trouble in this collection of informative and humorous stories. (ISBN: 9781416910893). Good.