Las Animas - Bent County Library District

When a dinosaur hatches from the egg that Little Grunt brought home for dinner, Mama and Papa Grunt let him keep it as a pet until it grows too big for their cave.

Grunt, a young cave boy, can draw animals that are so realistic they come to life, but when the tribe's hunters kill the animals for food, their greed almost depletes the supply altogether.

Miggy, who lives near Rocky Creek in Triassic Forest with the rest of her Clan, finds a rare dragon stone that must be kept a secret lest it lose its magical powers.

"This almost wordless picture book set in the dawn of human life imagines how art and storytelling were born from the power of one young girl's observation. Once upon a time, during the Pleistocene, somewhere between two-and-a-half million and ten thousand years ago, small groups of people traveled their known world, hunting for food, seeking shelter, and slowly becoming more like the people we are today. As far back as 40,000 years ago (and maybe...