You have arrived at Mick Manning and Brita Granström's website and gallery.
Here you can find out more about their books, have some fun on the activity
page and ask them questions via email... You can even buy an artwork if you like.
So come on in!

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Listen! Water dripping. Wind moaning.
You've woken up in a dark cave.
You've woken up in the stone age!
No light switch, no window.
Feel your way towards the sound of voices...

Outside there's a stone age family.
Mum, dad, grans grandads, aunties, uncles, cousins...
All getting ready to go hunting,
All getting ready to find wild food.

Let them show you where to gather seeds and berries,
where to find the best honey, where to dig for beetle grubs.
Make tricky traps and track wild animals.
But be careful! They may be tracking you.

Would you treasure a necklace of animals' teeth?
Or a pendant shaped liked a flying bird?
Stone age! bone age!
You're one of the family now...

Back at camp learn how to carve bone and antler.
You can even make skin clothes!
The sun's going down. Quick light a fire!
Eat with your fingers it's a stone age barbecue!

Now it's time to visit the magic place.
Deep in the cave by smoky torch-light,
the walls come alive!
Heart beat! Drum beat!
Stone age, bone age! What a clever age.

Stamp like a stag!
Strut like a bird!
Growl like a bear!
Stone age! Bone age!
Howl like a wolf!

  

Extracts from Stone Age, Bone Age!