mastodon

"The story of President Thomas Jefferson's quest to locate and assemble the first full mastodon skeleton in American history"--Provided by the publisher.

Tells the story of the discovery of the first mastodon skeleton in North America uncovered in a farmer's field in New York in 1799.

Jason is facing a boring summer, when he presses a button on the TV remote and zaps a baby mastodon into his living room. Can his weird neighbor help him send the creature back or will Jason have a prehistoric pet for the rest of his life?.

Presents a children's book for early readers that describes the American mastodon, what it looked like, where and how it lived, and when it became extinct.

Describes the efforts of the artist, museum curator, and self-taught paleontologist, Charles Willson Peale, to excavate, study, and display the bones of a prehistoric creature that is later named "mastodon.".

Follows Mastodon, an Ice Age elephant, through a day in his precarious prehistoric life.

Retells the Indian legend in which the Great Spirit gave the world the cranberry to remind people of their great battle with the mastodons and woolly mammoths.