The Boy of the Painted Cave
Penguin Young Readers Group · Paperback · April 16, 1996
Tao is an outcast.
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- Who it’s for
- A hunter’s urge to paint meets clan rules, wilderness, and a new idea of the hunt.
- Themes
- Artistic self-expression, Exclusion and belonging, Human-animal friendship
- Genres
- Prehistoric Stories, Survival Stories, Wolves & Coyotes
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Tao is an outcast. Unlike the great hunters of his clan, Tao does not want to kill the wild bears or woolly mammoths of the hunt. Instead he wants only to paint them. But only Chosen Ones can be cave painters. What's more, Volt, the clan leader, violently despises Tao. And when the other clan members discover Tao's secret talent, they cast him out into the wilderness alone.
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There, he befriends a wild wolf dog named Ram, and the mysterious Graybeard, who teaches him the true secret of the hunt.
Art Meets the Hunt
A hunter’s urge to paint meets clan rules, wilderness, and a new idea of the hunt.
Come here for
- An artist’s eye in a world built around the hunt
Expect
- Isolation, a wolf-dog friend, and a mysterious teacher
Where it sits
| Prehistoric Stories | 100% |
|---|---|
| Wolves & Coyotes | 45% |
| Survival Stories | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Art & Architecture
- Boys & Men
- Prehistoric Stories
- Authors
- Justin Denzel
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- April 16, 1996
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Artistic self-expression · Exclusion and belonging · Human-animal friendship
- Reading lane
- Art & Architecture