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.

I tried really hard to read this, but my electronic copy came with the pages cut in half and I couldn’t figure out what was happening in the story. So sorry!

This book is great for kids who are ready for something a little harder than picture books, but not quite up to other popular titles like Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Its format is similar to a graphic novel and it is quite funny. I think it will hold the attention of children who love to read as well as those who are a bit more reluctant. I can definitely see this one being a favorite!