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How to Eat a Woolly Mammoth

Mack and Mimo are hungry for something BIG, but they’re a little … well, little. While foraging for a snack, they stumble upon a savory riddle. Ignoring their size (and the fact that they’re herbivores), the mission-mapping monkey and riddle-solving rodent set out to nab a tasty woolly mammoth.

A curious stranger pops in, casting doubt on their big plans. When the stranger turns out to be a woolly mammoth in disguise, Mack and Mimo decide that mammoths make better friends than food and embark on a tasty new mission, their BIGGEST yet!

Piece-by-piece, the friends launch a hot new restaurant, proving that the way to tackle something really BIG is one bite at a time.

HOW TO EAT A WOOLLY MAMMOTH is the first book in the BIG IDEAS GN series.

My Why:

As a kid, I loved to build things. Didn’t have tools, but we had a well-stocked junk drawer. I loved how ordinary things, used in a new way, could become something cool. That’s how a cardboard box, a shoelace, and a pulley became a dog food vending machine that one summer.

When I left the corporate world to create for kids, I had all these bits and bobs leftover from my years in project management. Could these, with a little tape and glitter, be repurposed into fun stories that also contain simple blueprints for building strong habits?

WOOLLY MAMMOTH is a lighthearted retelling of an old adage, but underneath is a strategy for making big things possible. It’s my experience, used in a new way so that kids can make cool things with it too!