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Lina and the Time Travel Elephant by Jack d'Bourg - English book cover

Lina and the Time-Travel Elephant

A tender, curiosity‑filled bedtime adventure — about asking big questions and the gentle giants that once roamed the Earth.

Reading age
4-8 years
Format
Paperback
Print length
28 pages
Language
English
Coming soon
French, and German
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Where this one began

One bedtime question

This one came straight from my daughter. She wanted to know how a mammoth and an elephant could be different — and that single bedtime question grew into Lina’s journey all the way back to the Ice Age to find out.

The story

What it's about

When Lina wonders what makes mammoths so different from elephants, her little toy elephant Toto opens his eyes — with an extraordinary answer. Swept up in a swirl of bedtime magic, Lina travels all the way back to the Ice Age.

There she meets Momo, a gentle woolly mammoth with shaggy fur, great curved tusks and an enormous heart — and discovers that the biggest adventures often begin with a simple question.

“For every little question‑asker who looks at the world and wonders, ‘But why?”

A look inside

Peek between the pages

Story text: at bedtime in her Jura-mountains home, Lina wonders aloud why mammoths were so different from elephants — then her toy elephant Toto blinks to life.
Lina tucked up in bed at night smiling at her toy elephant Toto, snowy mountains through the window
Story text: Toto conjures golden lights and tells Lina to hold his ear; the room swirls and they travel back through time, arriving somewhere bright and cold.
Golden magic swirling around Lina and Toto in her bedroom as their time-travel begins
Story text: Lina meets Momo the mammoth, who explains that mammoths and elephants are cousins — he simply comes from the Ice Age, an "old cousin."
Lina in a pink coat and Toto meeting Momo the woolly mammoth on a snowy Ice Age plain
Gently, it's about

More than a bedtime story

Curiosity & big questions • A peek at the Ice Age • Kindness & gentle hearts • Cosy bedtime magic

Kind words

What readers say

★★★★★ Mammoth facts

“Another sweet story in the series, not only a lovely bedtime story but also great to learn a few facts about mammoths.”

— Amazon reviewer
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The rest of the series

Lina and the Magic Paintbrush Surprise by Jack d'Bourg — English cover.

Lina and the Magic Paintbrush Surprise

A magical picture book about imagination, courage and creativity — and finding light on a grey day. For little dreamers aged 4–8.

Available in English and French. German on the way.

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Bring the magic home

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