I received a free ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I wanted to love this book so much. The cover drew me in immediately and I thought it was such a cool fun idea. The execution just didn't do it for me. 3 stars because the art saved it.

Louis has to do an oral presentation on his pet. To everyone’s great surprise, he decides to present his mammoth. Even more surprising, he talks to the class about a new species of hairy Elephantidae only recently discovered: the Rock Mammoth. This proud ancestor of the hairy musicians of the ’70s didn’t actually disappear. In fact, these elephants had had enough of being rock stars and wished for a more tranquil life. So they decided to remain hidden during the last millennia. But now Louis, the great mammoth enthusiast and rigorous scientific apprentice, has discovered this well-kept secret and is ready to reveal it to the world.

This was a cute book that my son enjoyed. I liked the story and the illustrations. I am a sucker for prehistoric creatures so the mammoth was a hit.

Thank you NetGalley and publishers for an ARC. All opinions are my own.

I loved this book. Its a sweet story about a boy whose creativity and intelligence is beyond the teacher's expectations. I love this book as well as a mentor text when teaching research reports. Although fiction, it takes a great take on how fun researching can be! Looking forward to implementing this book in my class this year!!

This was cute and I really loved the color palette of the art. It was a good read with my kiddo and husband while we are all stuck at home.

A fun story, a little long for read-aloud, but good for independent reading, especially with the amount of detail in the illustrations. Louis is supposed to be doing an oral report about his pet, but the teacher is dubious when his report turns out to be about a previously unknown species of mammoth, the rock mammoth, predecessor of 1970s rock musicians. She allows him to continue, however, and soon the class is sucked into Louis' tale of researching and taking an expedition to find the illusive creature. His report is funny and engaging, and the artwork is great fun; the two aspects join to make a highly entertaining story that might inspire young scientific researchers to carry out their own expeditions (with a good supply of tomato and mayonnaise sandwiches on white bread, of course)!

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The illustrations were poor, the story was long and rambling (despite only being 27 pages or so) and I was utterly bored while reading, not charmed or curious. The humour fell flat and I had a serious problem differentiating fact from fiction with regard to the mammoth facts so a kid is going to stand no chance. All in all, the book felt like a really bad trip and the first time I read it to my child would be the last time. I'm sorry to say, I cannot recommend at all.

You won't know if you're reading fiction or nonfiction with this book. This story starts as a pretty credible class presentation about mammoths. Except of course, if you heard the word pet in front of the word mammoth. That's right Louis is going to educate everyone on a special variety of mammoth, the "rock" kind which apparently makes the best pet. With the perfect splash of scientific vocabulary this reminds you of what you love in a mockumentary. The speech bubbles and notebook paper give this picture book that little extra to push it over the top. Children ages 7 - 11 with laugh out loud while they read.

This was a cute story, a little too much and too long for my daughter but I enjoyed it, especially the art style.

I found this book quite boring. I’m not sure if any child will understand it. It was distracting to me, so that makes me think a lot of kids would find it that way too.

Kids might well like this School Report of a Wimpy Kid on Acid, but it was too wacky for me. The copious asides to the narrator's family life, delaying and delaying the end of his class presentation until the whole thing has swallowed up recess, just delay what enjoyment there is with the bonkers ideas the book has about prehistoric mammoths and their rock music. Either way, it seemed weird for weird's sake too often.

This book was a bit all over the place for me. I liked the illustrations, but there were a lot of sections that didn't have any words and that makes it a difficult book to read to a child. Additionally, there were other sections of the book that I just wanted things to move a lot quicker. I would recommend this for a specific type of child. I'm not sure this is a book for everyone.

I was provided an advanced readers copy of this book for free. I am leaving my honest, unbiased review voluntarily.

This is a cute but odd little kids' book about a boy who's going to be doing a presentation on rock mammoths. Those aren't real, BTW, although the book makes it sound as if they are. It's supposed to be a funny book and it's written with tons of doodles and sketches and side threads about things like Grandpa's dentures and trying to talk with your mouth full of cereal. It's not a read-aloud, since so much of it is told in the doodles and side bits. Two stars for "it was okay" but I think it's best suited for a certain kind of kid.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.

About halfway through Louis' teacher says "Speed it up" and I'm like, yes please,,, It get it is supposed to have scientific and educational information in a more fun execution, but honestly it dragged. it was quite a lot of reading, tiny font and not a lot of excitement. It was supposed to have funny elements, and maybe young kids would enjoy it, but it had quite a few big words and veered off and "Louis" had to be reminded to get back on track.

3.5*
This was absolutely not what I expected. This little picture book follows an oral presentation about rock mammoths. I cannot deny I wasn't sure if I was kinking it at first, but as I continued reading I became more and more invested in Louis's presentation.
Definitely recommended to those children who have a scientist inside them.

Review to come in April to blog/goodreads.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

Sorry this cover just called me. A mammoth with sunglasses and looking very punk? Sign me up!

The book is about a little guy who is having to do a report in front of his class (urgh, I remember how horrible I found that, I always was stressing out and trying to get out of it). His topic? Well, if you are thinking he is going to be doing it about a normal pet, like a goldfish for instance, then you are dead wrong. He is doing it on the mammoth! Yes, while that is not a conventional pet, Louis counts it as one, and I wasn't disagreeing. It would make a dang awesome pet.

We see how Louis tells the class about his pet, mammoth, and I loved how he started with their discovery and who was the discoverer, then he got to some details, and then he went to their disappearance (which according to him was because they were such rock stars and just needed time out, love it). We then read on how he got to the topic of his report and oh yes how he went on a hunt for a mammoth himself (which was adorable). While at times it was a bit less of a report and it felt more like a fantasy story I still loved it.

I loved LOVED how the book was designed. It looks like the pages from a research paper/report, but there also parts that showed us rooms and places. Delightful!

I had a big laugh at Louis report and then especially the teacher popping up quite a few times because Louis went on tangents and seemed to forget about mammoths all together. :P
I also loved the reactions of his classmates.

The ending was one I hadn't expected at all! I had many ideas on how the story could go and while I was kind of thinking of this as a possible ending I quickly shrugged it off, they wouldn't go that way? Would they? I was in stitches when he pulled that out in front of the class. Oh my goodness!

The illustrations were just the cutest and I love their style. I definitely need to check out what other things this illustrator drew. I want more!

All in all a funny and delightful tale about mammoths and reports and rock. So much rock. *headbangs*

This book is great for children that have moved on from "younger" picture books. I think it would be a little hard to follow for others, because even I at times had to go back and make sure I was reading something correctly. With that being said though, I really enjoyed the "mixed-media" graphic novel feel of it! Great illustrations!

Rock Mammoth is a beautifully illustrated and well-conceived book. I would gladly add it to my classroom bookshelf or children’s lit course.

This is a weirdly odd picture book, that looks as though it is going to be about the wooly mammoth, but it is not. It is about a rock mammoth, who apparently is like a rock star? I never quite figured it out, although it does seem to play the guitar.

I wasn't quite sure if this was supposed to be satire, or partially true, or complete fantasy.

The other problem with the story is it rambled so much, I just wanted it to be done, which is never a good sign for any book.

I suppose it could be amusing for the easily amused.

Did not quite work for me.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

I've usually had pretty good luck with books from this publisher, so this is a rare miss. Rock Mammoth blurs the line between fantasy and reality so much that even I was fooled. The problem is that parts of it sound factual and scientific, so the reader might assume that much of it is. Of course, a tiny mammoth hiding at the arena is fiction. But I spent much of the book thinking that Voïvoden Mamouten, a supposed Icelandic researcher that mammoths were named after, was a real person. (He's not.)

The book is also way too long. The other kids in Louis's class might have been hanging on his every word, but I quickly grew tired of the nonsense that kept coming out of his mouth. He's supposed to be doing an oral report on a pet, but he continually digresses (and the teacher doesn't really try to redirect him nearly enough). The result is a tedious story that's useless as far as teaching anything (because it's too difficult to figure out what's real without breaking out Google).

This was a disappointment, and kind of a waste of time. Definitely not recommended.