When we visited Font de Gaume to see some of the last original cave paintings open to the public in France, I found this fun book in the gift shop: OSCAR AND ARABELLA by Neal Layton...
It's a sweet story about the friendship of two woolly mammoths and all the things they like to do together. (The copy we found was in French, so I translated it for Ladybug -- also fun.)
Turns out, Layton's written more on these two friends. In OSCAR AND ARABELLA AND ORMSBY, a woolly rhinoceros pushes his way into the friendship (nicely presented in the title and cover art). Arabella thinks Ormsby is funny; Oscar is not impressed...
Finally, in the grand tradition of introducing characters children love and then threatening their existence (a-hahaha, I love children's books), Layton presents OSCAR AND ARABELLA: HOT HOT HOT, in which we learn that the two friends (understandably) don't like summer, and... (dun dun DUN) ...summers are getting longer every year! Oh no!!!
Based on the first book, I'd recommend the other two without even reading them. Because that the kind of responsible book recommender I am.
If you go to the French site for these books, there are downloadable (PDF) line drawings for coloring, too:
Happy reading (and coloring)!
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