"The Secret Cave - Discovering Lascaux" by Emily Arnold McCully did something beautifully that I tried many a time to have my Grade 7 students do and that is to write about what it must have been like to be the first in 17,000 years to see the stunning art work done in caves by prehistoric man almost 35,000 years ago.
Just think of a group of children literally stumbling down into a small narrow passage, not knowing where it will lead, and finding amazing pictures of all sorts of animals painted and etched high onto the walls of the caves. It was the discovery of a lifetime.
This book indeed is a fictional story but based on the anecdotal accounts of those young boys and the stunning illustrations lay out clearly the excitement of that time.
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