cave paintings

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Grunt!

the primitive cave boy
1995
Grunt, a young cave boy, can draw animals that are so realistic they come to life, but when the tribe's hunters kill the animals for food, their greed almost depletes the supply altogether.

Boy of the painted cave

1996
Forbidden to make images, fourteen-year-old Tao, a boy with a bad foot, yearns to be a cave painter, recording the figures of the rhinos, bison, and other animals of his prehistoric times.

The witches and wizards of Oberin

2001
A group of witches and wizards gathers to seek a way to save Earth from the turmoil they foresee, and thousands of years later geologists discover a cave painting in the French Alps that seems to have magical properties.

First painter

2000
Following the death of her mother, Mishoo the new shaman, must find a way to help her prehistoric tribe during a drought.

Lascaux

movement, space, and time
2005
Examines Lascaux--the French cave containing Old Stone Agewall paintings of bison, deer, and horses--from geologic, archaeological, and artistic perspectives, and maps its contents.

Mystery of the Lascaux Cave

1999
Discusses the paintings on the walls of Lascaux Cave in France including the cave's discovery, its significance, and the efforts to preserve the paintings themselves.

Boy of the painted cave

1988
Forbidden to make images, fourteen-year-old Tao, a boy with a bad foot, yearns to be a cave painter, recording the figures of the rhinos, bison, and other animals of his prehistoric times.

The first drawing

A boy, living in the ancient world before the invention of drawing, creates the world's first pictures as a means of sharing his visualization of everyday objects with those around him.

Ghost hands

a story inspired by Patagonia's Cave of the Hands
2011
Auki, a young member of the Tehuelche tribe in Patagonia, wants to prove himself as a hunter but when he sets out on his own to face the puma, he stumbles upon a sacred cave and its guardian.

Cave of Lascaux

the cave of prehistoric wall paintings
2003
Recounts the discovery of the caves in France that have artwork on the walls made by the Magdalenian people more than 17,000 years ago.

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