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K-Gr 3—In this compelling picture book, Gerstein invites children to travel back in time more than 30,000 years to a cave in what is now southern France. Using thickly applied acrylics and rough strokes of black ink, he creates a prehistoric setting complete with a community of early humans, giant woolly mammoths, and one inquisitive caveboy. Told in second-person narrative, the text asks readers to put themselves in the mindset of the boy surrounded by wide-open skies, plush dri...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Gerstein explores the imaginative feat it must have been to invent drawing -- the two-dimensional depiction of a three-dimensional world. Noting that there exist thirty-thousand-year-old cave drawings (and in the same cave, a child's footprint), the offstage narrator begins by addressing a jeans-clad kid who's about to draw a picture: "Imagine. . .You were born before the invention of drawing. . .You live in a cave. . .You love to watch animals." The pictures then flash bac...Log In or Sign Up to Read More