Meet the Woolly Mammoth

by Sophie Philippo

Overview

What did wooly mammoths look like? What did they eat? What happened when humans entered the picture? And how do we know all of these things about mammoths when they no longer exist?Readers will find out how scientists study mammoth remains, visit a prehistoric department store to shop for products made from mammoths, and then test your knowledge with an illustrated quiz.- Takes readers behind the scenes to show how archeologists have learned what they know about mammoths.- Photos, illustrations, cartoons, comics, maps, charts... a varied and fun presentation suitable for browsing or study.- Comprehensive back matter that includes a glossary, an index, and a list of resources.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587285219
Publisher:	Cooper Square Publishing Llc
Publication date:	09/01/2005
Pages:	45
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 9.91(h) x 0.36(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

Editorial Reviews

Fossils, frozen carcasses, carved objects and cave paintings, vestiges of elephant-like animals long extinct, have excited human curiosity for thousands of years. This lively addition to a growing body of topic books focuses on the woolly mammoths more common in Eurasia and northern North America, although it gives a nod to their cousins who roamed further south. Research methods, shapes and sizes, habitat, diet, daily life, relationship to modern-day elephants, theories about their extinction and more are covered in double-page spreads. "The Mammoth Department Store" catalogs how prehistoric man might have used mammoth parts. There is a good interrelationship between text and pictures, including paintings, color photographs, cartoon-like drawings and ghostly reverse images of imagined past beings. A wide variety of formats-from text-plus-pictures, to comic strips, sidebars and boxes of infobits-provides an appealing entry for younger readers. The glossary, index and suggested books, videos and links for further study will help the elementary school researcher. An attractive, informative package to be shelved alongside Caroline Arnold's When Mammoths Walked the Earth (2002), which has a more traditional presentation. (Nonfiction. 7-11)

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