Mammoth

By Patrick O'Brien

Book Overview

Fascinating facts about the elephant's ancient relatives. Long ago, in the time of cavemen and saber-toothed tigers, lived an enormous hairy creature with huge tusks - the mammoth. This ancient relative of the elephant inhabited a frozen Ice Age world. It ranged from Africa to Alaska, and everywhere in between.Then ten thousand years ago, the mammoth disappeared, leaving only its bones. But those bones have been able to tell us so much! Discover the fascinating facts and intriguing beliefs about the mammoth - one of the largest animals that ever lived.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805065962
• ISBN13: 9780805065961
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.9" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 5 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 4

Customer Reviews

Astutely illustrated in full color

Nicely written and superbly illustrated by Patrick O'Brien, Mammoth is an entertaining and educational picture book filled from cover to cover with scientific facts about the mammoth, one of the largest creatures that ever lived, and an animal that died out around ten thousand years ago with the end of the Ice Age. Astutely illustrated in full color, and replete with information on what mammoths ate, how they lived, and how their fossilized remains have been discovered today, Mammoth is strongly recommended for school and community libraries as being an excellent and "reader friendly" introduction for children into the fascinating study of prehistoric animals.