The Mellops Strike Oil

By Tomi Ungerer. Published by Phaidon. 

Hardcover, 32 pages, 3-Colour, 2011 (originally published in German in 1978)

While on a family picnic Mr Mellops notices the mountain water has an ‘awful taste, like oil’. Soon, the intrepid Mellops embark on a quest that takes them to the library, the museum and eventually an oil field!  Reissued in English to inspire and delight a new generation of children.

Ages 3-6