Our Mammoth In The Snow

by Adrian Mitchell

The Gumble twins throw a party for their pet mammoth, Buttercup, to take her mind off the old days when the world was full of mammoths. Suggested level: junior.

Illustrated by Priscilla Lamont

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Adrian Mitchell, FRSL, was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British anti-authoritarian Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement. The critic Kenneth Tynan called him the British Mayakovsky.