The Curious Case of the Missing Mammoth

THe curious case of the missing mammoth is a brilliant story which mixes the fact finding interest of a non fiction book with a interesting story of a journey around a museum. The story tells how Oscar helps Timothy the mammoth to find his baby brother. As they search, they move around the museum, encountering all the animals, creatures and historical figures held within the museum. They eventually find success when they find Timothy's brother with his mum in the extinct animals exhibit. This book is highly engaging as it's interactive fact flaps will keep children hooked finding information around the book. Each page offers a different section of the museum and facts that link to the area, for example when they enter the underwater world there are lots of flaps under the bright illustrations which give lots of information about different sea creatures. This book would be a great inspiration to fact and non-chronological report writing. Creating children's own stories with fact files hidden within would be a great hook to writing and create lots of opportunities to write lots of different genres under one outcome. This will be a popular book off the shelf and I am sure will prompt lots of like texts. Picture book / Ages 5+ / Reviewed by Marie Berry, teacher.

Suggested Reading Age 5+