Book Description
The Ice Age is one of the most difficult eras in geological history for a uniformitarian (those who believe the earth evolved by "slow processes over millions of years") scientist to explain, simply because long ages of evolution cannot explain it. Many mysterious questions about the Ice Age arise:

What would cause the summer temperatures of the northern United States and Europe to plummet over 50 degrees Fahrenheit? What was the source of the abnormal amount of moisture necessary for heavy snow? What caused the cold summer temperatures and heavy snowfall to persist for hundreds of years?Why did mammoths become extinct, not only in Siberia, but also across the earth, and at the same time as many other large mammals? How could they still have partially decayed food in their stomachs?

Author Michael Oard gives plausible explanations of the seemingly unsolvable mysteries about the Ice Age and the woolly mammoths in this intriguing new book. Many other Ice Age topics are explained including super ice age floods, ice cores, man in the ice age, and the number of ice ages. ... Read more

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Multiple Mysteries Mastered
Every once in a long while a book comes along which clearly and concisely explains scientific mysteries which have been swept under the proverbial rug because of the current definition of science (only naturalistic causes for the existence of everthing are allowed to be considered).Frozen in Time is such a book.

Far from ignoring the scientific data, this author uses current weather models and superb logic to show exactly how an ice age would have formed as a direct result of a worldwide flood.This solves the major long standing mystery surrounding the demise of the Woolly Mammoths.An extremely thought provoking book which should be a standard text in any college classroom on earth history - but sadly won't because it destroys the assumptions of, and evidence for, a hugely old earth.

Get this book if you'd like a glimpse at the truth.

Single Ice Age Theory won't stay frozen
In this book, young earth creationist Michael Oard (known as Mr. Ice Age) presents his one Ice Age theory (caused by the Flood).He fails to take all the effects of his theory into account, making it unworkable.He feeds his Ice Age with massive amounts of volcanics, but he does not consider that a byproduct of volcanic activity is carbon dioxide.In reality, instead of causing an Ice Age, Noah and his family would have been roasted alive.
This is just one problem of many.As is usual in young earth books, the young earth reader is supposed to accept the words of this "expert" without question.If one is willing to look beneath the surface, insurmountable problems arise. ... Read more

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A great woolly mammoth leads her family across rivers, plains, and glacial ridges on an annual migration to familiar feeding grounds. On the way, a new calf is born and learns to eat, to walk, and eventually to play with the other young mammoths. As the seasons pass, the mammoths prepare for the long winter. Transporting readers back in time, and packed with information, this story follows one herd of these remarkable beasts on their incredible cross-country trek. Though this journey happened more than 12,000 years ago, the book's descriptive text and dramatic paintings bring the great creatures to life for today's readers. ... Read more

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Growing to weights of 10 tons and distinguished by enormous curling tusks, mammoths were the largest land animals of the Ice Age.Today, discoveries of mammoth fossilsin places ranging from tar pits and sinkholes to frozen tundra and the bottom of the seaare expanding our view into the lives of these fascinating giants.In this meticulously researched, clear, and accessible book, award-winning nonfiction author Caroline Arnold describes the natural history of mammoths, highlighting their physical features and adaptation to the environment.Laurie Caple's stunning, scientifically accurate watercolors complement the text and provide an intriguing look at these huge creatures and what the world was like at the time when mammoths walked the earth.Index. ... Read more

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When Mammothes Walked the Earth
We had gotten this book from the library, it is a good factual book about Mammoths for younger children 3years to 9 years. We also visited the sink hole sight that was mentioned in it in South Dakota, so it made the book even more enjoyable.

Provides a fascinating review of the beast and its history
Research and the latest scientific findings blend with fine watercolors to describe the natural history of mammoths in a picturebook for kids in grades 3-4. From the first mammoths, largest land animals of the Ice Age, to their demise, When Mammoths Walked The Earth provides a fascinating review of the beast and its history. ... Read more

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Some people think that North America¹s history began when Columbus sailed over in 1492. The first volume in the tongue-in-cheek, no-holds-barred history series says that estimate¹s a bit off, by about 250 million years! With tons of facts, lots of laughs, and plenty of funky illustrations, author Liz Levy takes readers on a roller coaster ride through the age of the dinosaurs, the great ice ages, and, finally, to the appearance of the first humans. ... Read more

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Ew.
Terry Deary writes the original Horrible Histories.They're interesting, witty, and even educational. Kids and adults alike read them for fun! Read them.

Elizabeth Levy's "American Horrible Histories", however, are dull, unfunny, and while they are "educational", I can't see anyone reading them for fun. It reads like a text book.

Horrible Histories
This books are wonderful.They make learning history fun and cool.It combines jokes, historical facts and funny information in a great easy-to-read package.My 4th grader loves the whole series.Both reluctant readers and history lovers will enjoy the breezy way history is told in these books.Ideal for 3rd-5th graders and even middle school students. Great as gifts or for a classroom. Too bad all history books aren't this fun!

Who Are You Calling A Woolly Mammoth
I think that my book was funnier than anything else. I mean it's about history and all but it was even funnier. It makes you not want to stop because you want to see what's next. I think that the autor wants it so you learn and have fun at the same time. Some other books were all talking and no fun if you know what I mean. There's a little story teller on every page; he tells jokes about the things you've just read. I liked this book and I hope you do to thanks.

Who Are You Calling A Woolly Mammoth?
This book teaches you about Prehistoric times and how creatures survived. The book also has some humor. There is almost a comic on every page, and most of them are funny. It's a way to learn and have fun at the same time. Inconclusion, I write this because it's a great book to learn from and get a few laughs along with it. ... Read more

Amazon.com
Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park introduced readers to the once improbable notion that, thanks to advances in genetic science, dinosaurs could be brought back from the grave. Richard Stone's Mammoth offers a kindred scenario: the establishment of a "Pleistocene Park," in which long-extinct creatures like the mammoth, saber-toothed tiger, and woolly rhino could be resurrected and given sanctuary.

This is not a science-fiction vision, we learn from science journalist Stone's absorbing journey into recent prehistory. Already, scientists from Russia, Canada, the United States, and other nations are studying the possibility of restoring a stretch of northern Siberia to its Pleistocene condition, thereby creating what they call a "mammoth steppe" populated by bison, Yakutian horses, and elephants--and one day, perhaps, creatures such as the woolly mammoth, genetically "summoned from the world of the dead." The materials are readily available, Stone writes, in the form of DNA-bearing "muscles and ligaments and fat" found in mammoths now buried in arctic permafrost. Whether those remnants can be made to bring back to life what Siberians call the "rat beneath the ice" is another question, but it's one that many scholars are busily exploring.

While looking into what he calls a "watershed in efforts to study lost ecosystems," Stone provides a lively natural history of the mammoth and evaluates conflicting theories on its extinction. His book makes for a memorable journey into unknown scientific territory--and a glimpse at a possible future that is surpassing strange. --Gregory McNameeBook Description
The true story of a daring band of twenty-first-century mammoth hunters and their fascinating search for the long-extinct beast.

In this adventure-filled narrative, science writer Richard Stone follows two groups of explorers--one a Russian-Japanese team, the other a French-led consortium--as they battle bitter cold, high winds, and supply shortages to carry out their quest. Armed with GPS, ground-penetrating radar, and Soviet-era military helicopters, they seek an elusive prize: a mammoth carcass that will help determine how the creature lived, how it died--and how it might be brought back to life.

A riveting tale of high-stakes adventure and scientific hubris, Mammoth is also an intellectual voyage through uncharted moral terrain, as we confront the promise and peril of resurrecting creatures from the deep past. ... Read more

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Mammoth-size information . . . Minute-size conclusions
This book contains valuable references to and quotations fromacross the tundra of perspectives of how/why/when the mammoths died off.Like so many Evolutionists, the author stands firm in the mire of peers who keep finding more and more physical evidence of the immediate death and preservation of mammoths (and their environments).Yet, Stone and his peers remain united in their scoffing at a literal interpretation of the Biblical account of the Flood in the days of Noah.

The reader must wonder why the Biblical, "young Earth," account is not treated as a valid explanation, after the author debunks contrary theory after contrary theory.

For example, Stone only makes passing reference to the many mammoths which have been unearthed in Florida.The reader must realize on her/his own that this fact alone refutes almost all of the variations of Evolutionary postulating that gradual climate changes killed off these magnificant creatures.

The thinking reader will wonder how the theories ever get past the mammoth-size problem of herds of mammoths having been found under what is now land too far north to produce the food supply needed for even one of them for a day, let alone herds of them for life-times.The eons of gradual change required in the theories of Evolution cannot account for the repeatedly-found evidence of healthy, well-nourished, gluttonous, quick-frozen mammoths.Stone discusses this evidence, but stears clear of giving serious credence to that 40-day dumping of rain and ice as claimed in the Bible.

Stone never addresses the cellular evidence in these mammoths which conclusively shows that they were quick-frozen at temperatures far below any temperatures existing on Earth.This fact demands an explanation which includes the injection of temperatures found only in outer space, (or in substances such as liquid nitrogen).

Nor does Stone discuss the problem of lack of evidence of internal decay.Mammoths killed by slow starvation would die and decay on the inside while their outer layers froze, if dropped in current-day arctic regions.Once the blood stops pumping, this process of inner rot happens far quicker than a huge beast would freeze to its core.Yet, mammoth after mammoth has been found in these northern regions frozen entirely.

Most glaringly absent is discussion of a mammoth found in the far north with sub-tropical vegetation found still in its mouth.That discovery should have narrowed the amount of valid theories by enough to make this book a lot shorter.(Hint: they did not find a chewing tobacco can in its back pocket.)

Stone's recounting of the 1887 writings of Sir Henry H. Howorth are more formidable than Stone admits to.Stone admits that Howorth's cataclysm theories have been vindicated more and more during Stone's professional career, yet that bias against a literally accurate Biblical account is treated like laughing-stock material.

My suggestion is that if the mammoth fits, wear it!

As for the presentation of the book, it is not a heavy-read.Stone's writing style is understandable, even to folks like me who simply want to think and learn.

The pictures are a bit of a letdown.I had hoped for more pictures of mammoths and their body parts.You can find more such pictures on ebay than in this book.

Overall, a valuable resource for the thinking descendant of Noah.

Mammoths, Mammoths, everywhere...
The Woolly Mammoth, long gone from the world but not yet forgotten, was a major source of food, fuel and material for our early ancestors.Our early culture must have understood them but to us are still, in some way, a mystery.
How did they die, was it overchill or overkill?Did we do them in or did a germ do it?How come they lived through so so much to finally die in what seems a blink of an eye?This book is the tale of trying to find out the answers and, maybe, just maybe, find a way to bring them back to life.Yes, maybe if we could find a frozen body to get undamaged, useful, Mammoth DNA from we could do more than just understand them - we could clone them.
This book has many tales.The Mammoth Hunters trying to find a whole creature, the Scientists who want to understand the myster, the Discovery Channel trying to get a story and the Russians just trying to make a living and a quick buck.
Fun, but the ending was clear before I opened the book.As there is no baby Mammoths running about I know that they failed to clone them.Yet the book does give you a good overview of the history of Mammoth research and our knowledge of them.And some of the ideas, like bringing Canadian bison to Siberia
and African rhinos and elephants to North America are both amazing and risky.

Excellent, Quick Read
This book is a very interesting discussion of three topics:

1)Why did the mammoths go extinct?
2)Is it possible (and desirable/ethical) to bring back the mammoths via cloning or interbreeding with modern elephants?
3) How did the demise of the mammoth and similar large mammals affect the vegetation and climate of the areas in which they lived (in this case Siberia).Russian scientists theorize that when the mammoths no longer grazed and churned up the ancient grasslands, the vegetation changed completely, into the tundra-wasteland that it is today.

Overall a very enjoyable short book that does not try to puff up the page count with hundreds of pages of irrelevant material.

TMR

A Shaggy Elephant Story
This fascinating little book is about a large and extinct creature, the mammoth.Evidence of this creature, which last walked the earth 37 centuries ago, seems to be scattered all over the place in North America and in Siberia.This book describes the work of a mixed band of mammoth enthusiasts as they search for mammoths frozen in the tundra of Russia's Far North.

There is an international cast in this story-a French arctic travel guide, Russian academics, Japanese experts in reproductive science, a Dutch amateur with a house stuffed with mammoth bones and, of course, the folks at the Discovery Channel trying to make this all into Good Television or, at least, Show Biz.Unfortunately, this book comes a bit too early--biotechnology has not advanced to the point where a mammoth might be cloned from scattered remnants of DNA and a superb specimen, frozen in the ice with useful bits intact, had not been found by the time the book went to press.Instead, author Richard Stone does an admirable job in sewing parts together to tell this story.

We learn that the inhabitants of Siberia believe that digging up the bones of mammoths brings bad luck, but there is nothing wrong with taking tusks when they are found.Huge numbers of tusks, estimated from 50,000 animals, have been shipped out in the last century.Scientists made arduous journeys trying to discover more about mammoths and our strong interest in them continues to this day.The book details how mammoths probably lived and alternative explanations about how they became extinct--through climactic change, being hunted or wiped out by disease.

This is quite interesting and the sections about cloning mammoths are highly imaginative and entertaining.Mr. Stone has done good research and writes engagingly of his voyages beyond the beyond.And he does not shy away from commenting on the ethical question of cloning extinct species.But at the end of the day, one has to wonder about the resources invested into the quixotic expeditions he details when there are pressing issues in habitat conservation today, including the protection of that much-loved and much-decimated relative of the mammoth, the elephant.

Recommended for those with an interest in science on the fringes...

Mammoth:The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant
Mammoth:THe Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant written by Richard Stone is a book about adventure, but not just your oridinary adventure.The Adventure here is about the unearthing of giant animals from the Pleistocene Era... Giant Wooly Mammoths in the permafrost of Siberia.This is a very provocative book as the science is beautifully clear.

The Wooly Mammoth roamed Europe, Asia and North America and grew to huge proportions, but later became extinct and all that we know of their existance is being uncovered by some very good scientific research.Now, a new generation of explorers has taken up the challange, to find out more about the mammoth and the life and times that existed during their lifetimes.Armed with ground-penetrating radar, GPS, and helecopters the large expanse of Siberia is begins to yield some interesting finds and the clues that go along with more and more information.

There is promiss in this book that once again the mammoth may live... how you say can this happen... well through DNA and cloning.This book takes you on a rigerous adventure through frontiers of science.Yes, theoretically it can be done, but this book examins both the profound philosophical questions about the risks and morality of executing these efforts.Liken to "Jurassic Park," you say.. and you would be correct.

Theories exist as to why the mammoth did out and became extinct... one of which is the overchill theory as the Earth became increasingly cooler the food supply for the mammoth became less and less forage for the animal, next the psychological change of being penned in by dense forest and glacier.Mammoth were used to living in the Northern cooler climates as is evidece in the finds of today.So much so, as there are finds in the small islands of the Arctic Ocean.

This book tells a riveting adventureus tale that is fascinating to read.The prose flows well as you, the reader, are now in the hunt for the mammoth. The text treats the reader to a review of the wide variety of information Stone has learned about the Mammoth while doing research. ... Read more

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gorgeous artwork of modern and Ice Age animals
Dutch illustrator Rien Poortvliet has done an outstanding job with this work, depicting in a series of illustrations the modern and Ice Age wildlife of the Netherlands. Beginning in the present with deer and rabbits seen from his treestand, he goes further and further back in time, showing more and more exotic wildlife. Soon he shows pheasants, partrides, foxes, deer, and wild boars, as well as bringing us to early modern and medieval Holland. Eventually the work progresses all the way back to the Pleistocene, with wonderful illustrations of early man and such long vanished animals as Irish elk, woolly rhinos, and his crowning acheivement, the woolly mammoth.

Though the modern animals are well depicted, the main reason to buy this lavishly illustrated book are for its Ice Age fauna. In addition to extinct mammals, animals no longer found wild in the Netherlands such as wolves, horses, lions, bears, and elk are well covered as well.

This book is again extremely beautiful; many of the paintings have a very haunting quality. The way he takes you back in time really shows a unity of theme and makes the Ice Age fauna that much more real, showing they were as natural a part of the landscape as trees or rabbits, and look all the more real for being depicted in landscape still around today.

The book is not only on wildlife and landscape, as he shows a great deal of the life of peasants, farmers, fishermen, hunters, and eventually primitive early Man in Holland. He shows the building of ancient burial mounds, the dolmens. Poortvliet takes you on an Ice Age hunt for reindeer, then back to the village to show how the skins were prepared for clothing. He richly depicts a medieval hunt, complete with peasant drivers pressed into service, magnificent hounds, and the deadly last stand of the wild boar that was often the subject of the great hunt. A good number of pages are depicted to the interaction of wolves and humans in the Netherlands, showing wolf attacks and the campaign to wipe them out in response.

Sorry if I ramble in this review but there is just so much to take in with this magnificent work, it is like a concentrated blast of Dutch natural and human history, rich with wonderfully depicted landscapes, wildlife, human interest, and magnificent Ice Age fauna. Truly a rare book. A great book to get lost in, a great coffee table book, just a great book.

Excellent insight into the natural history of early Europe
Rien Poortvliet's Journey Into the Ice Age offers an excellent and illustrative insight into the natural history of Europe.He begins the story from his modern-day perch built into a tree for the purposes of viewing wildlife in their most relaxed state, and continues as a virtual daydream which illustrates to the reader with both personal reflection and visual images how the wildlife of earlier days may have appeared had he been in the same perch hundreds or thousands of years ago.His illustrations are very detailed and anatomically perfect, and his handwritten notes add a very personal touch to this aesthetically as well as literally pleasing work of art.I enjoy reading the book to my children and leave it on the coffee table for guests to thumb through as well.I will definitely seek other titles from this author ... Read more

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Long ago, in the time of cavemen and saber-toothed cats, lived an enormous, hairy creature with huge tusksthe 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 mammothone of the largest animals that ever lived. ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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Its trumpeting cries blasted into the cold Siberian air. But its mighty struggles only pulled it deeper into the soft mud. . . .

Could this have been the fate of the young woolly mammoth discovered more than 20,000 years after it died? As scientists carefully thaw this giant intact prehistoric mammal, they hope to learn more about how the species lived and why it–the largest mammal to ever live–became extinct. But most important, this animal’s well-preserved body may help answer an incredible question–can the mammoth be cloned and one day walk the earth again?

Breathtaking, accurate illustrations; full-color photographs; fascinating maps; and informative diagrams bring the story of the amazing mammoth to life in this large-size hardcover. ... Read more

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Text recreates their lives, world and habits
Mark Hallett provides the eye-catching color drawings which explain the lives and fate of the woolly mammoths. Text recreates their lives, world and habits while the color drawings bring these giant creatures alive - on the page. Good reading skills required. ... Read more

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Looking for an escape from the heat? Kids will laugh out loud at the lively illustrations in Neal Layton’s tale of two fun-loving, enterprising mammoths.

For wild and woolly mammoths like Oscar and Arabella, playing in the ice and snow and arctic winds of an Ice Age winter is the coolest fun. But when the snow starts to melt, and thousands of brightly colored plants sprout up and irritate their eyes, and insects are swarming, and it just gets hotter and hotter and hotter, it seems there’s no end to their misery. Then one day, the shaggy pair comes up with a bright idea. It may be a close shave, but it looks like they’ve finally found a way to enjoy the hottest summer ever! ... Read more

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Silly quirky book
My three year-old son and I really like this book.It's silly and quirky.A simple little fun book which will introduce kids to mammoths that lived during the last ice age.

Review by GMC level 1, 2006
I like the book "Hot Hot Hot".Neal Layton is the author and the illustrator.The book is about the Ice age.In the summer it gets hotter and hotter.Oscar cuts his hair.He cuts Arabellas too.I think children would like this book ... Read more

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Descriptions of prehistoric life with color stamps and line drawings. ... Read more

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It is the Ice Age and Woolly Mammoth is at home on the cold, windy plains of Europe. As a storm comes and heavy snow falls, Woolly Mammoth realizes he is lost. A pack of Saber-Tooth Tigers catches sight of Woolly Mammoth. Can he find his way out of this trouble? Includes a tear-out poster, and read-along CD. ... Read more

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Customer Reviews (6)

Alaziah's review
My favorite animal is the mammoth because they help people. My favorite part was when they were swimming. The book has good pictures.

Jasmine's evaluation
I liked this book because it has rhyming words. My favorite part of this book was when (the calves) get in the middle (of the herd of female mammoths).

Teona's evaluation
I like this book because mammoths can swim under water. My favorite part of the book was when the mammoths headed back up north again (from their migration down south). Other kids would like this book because it happened 10,000 years ago.

Tywan's evaluation
I like this book because mammoths are in it. My favorite part was when the mammoths make it to the warm place and then went back to the north.

Wolly Bully
A real charmer for kids who love animals or dinosaurs.Lisa Wheeler did a wonderful job of simplifying the story of migrating mammoths and managed to rhyme the whole book too!This book has 3 factors that make it a true winner of a kids book...1-it rhyimes, 2-it has a prehistoric setting, 3- the artwork is fantastic. I can't say enough about Cyrus's illustrations.They 'pop' right off the pages of this wonderful book. ... Read more