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Introduces the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of the prehistoric relative of modern-day Indian elephant. ... Read more

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The acclaimed Dutch painter and illustrator of the enormously successful Gnomes takes readers back hundreds of thousands of years to the Ice Age. Through more than 220 pages of full-color illustrations and incisive text, Rien Poortvliet presents an up-close look at real and imaginary Ice Age animals. ... 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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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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Let the buyer beware
This book is part of Scholastic Books' America's Horrible Histories series. This book uses a cockroach to tell the history of North America from 250 million years ago, when it was part of the Pangaea super-continent, down to the last ice age of 10,000 years ago. Along the way, the reader is treated to a number of silly cartoons, not to mention all of the silly jokes and puns.

OK, where do I start? This book is really a comic book history of North America, with the subject treated in a very flippant manner. Some of the subjects addressed are adequately discussed, while others are clearly not. If the humor connects with the young reader, then he or she will no doubt read through the book. But that's a big if.

So, for coverage of the subject I give it 3 stars, for readability I also give it 3 stars. It's not a great book, but it is an OK one. You have got to know your young reader - if the reader is interested in prehistory *and* has an off-beat humor then he or she will no doubt like this book, and it will hopefully spark enough interest for the reader to go on to better books. If the reader does care about prehistory, or does not go in for such sophomoric humor, then the book will be a bust. Let the buyer beware.

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

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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.Amazon.com Review
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 McNamee ... Read more

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Entertaining and Engrossing!
This was a fascinating book - though, I suppose, rather disappointing in the end since the scientists still haven't found the mammoth tissue they need, or have found the real case for the mammoth's extinction. Still, it was a book full of fascinating facts and an absolute pleasure to read. This was published in 2002, so I wonder what progress they have made in this research in the last seven years...

Mildly interesting
There is surprisingly little about the project of cloning mammoths. I'm not really sure what it's about; it's disorganized and kind of all over the place. There's some about the mammoths themselves (as living animals), some about the various adventures to find frozen mammoths in Sibera, and some about the science behind the cloning. While mildly interesting, it wasn't especially informative.

Not terrible but not recommended.

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 ... 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 fossils—in places ranging from tar pits and sinkholes to frozen tundra and the bottom of the sea—are 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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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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Describes the physical characteristics and habits of the prehistoric ancestor of the elephant and discusses why they may have become extinct. ... Read more

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This compelling book explores the reasons for the mammoths' extinction, such as climate change and human hunting, and provides a tour of mass extinctions through earth's history, including dinosaurs. Brilliantly written, the book is an engaging exploration of the history of life and the importance of humanity as an evolutionary force. 30 illus. ... Read more

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An Intrigruing Possibility
Everyone knows that the last ice age killed the mastodons and mammoths.Massive climate changes apparently altered their sources of food, the weather was difficult to adapt to and these mega mammals became extinct as a result of these powerful forces.But what if we are wrong in these assumptions?

Peter D. Ward instructs us to search elsewhere for the true culprit.To learn the truth, Ward leads us through several mass extinctions in Earth's history, the demise of the mightiest of dinosaurs and the unceasing advance of the Clovis people and other groups of early man.On every continent, the great mammals disappeared shortly after the arrival of man.Coincidence?The author does not think so.

On top of this, some species seem to go into "protective mode" if their survival seems unlikely.For example, when modern elephants are threatened, they produce less offspring, not more.They've even been known to shove juveniles away from shrinking waterholes so that the adult elephants may drink, thus helping to ensure the survival of viable males and females capable of continuing the species.Could ancient mega mammals have exhibited similar behavior?If waves of hunters were added to this sad equation, might not mammoths and other large creatures have reached the overkill threshold, the point from which their species could never recover?

If so, how does this bode well for our future and the continuation of hundreds of species into the next century or millenium?Is it already too late?Read on, dear reader, read on and discover the true villain in this modern day mystery.

I Bet Al Gore read this book to: Complete Fantasy
Ok, IWill just give my thought on this book because anyone who understands Science and God will know this book is crap!Just like how the Government is trying to scare the world into Global Warming Terror
(REMEMBER Y2K) To profit themsleves. We may have Global warming but anyone who has studied the history of the Ice Ages (humans didn't pollute in the mammoth days)and has also studied the melting ice caps on mars will realize that Global warming is far from being man made. We may have contributed to it, but we didn't cause it. Global warming is a cycle the earth goes through. We have been blessed the last few years with climate stability, but we live in an unstable world that does change. We are the generation that will see that change and the upcoming cycle occur.

Don't listen to eveything Mr,Gore and these unresearched books try to teach you. Listen to God and learn your facts.

If you wanna know what killed the Mammoths-->read up on Noahs Flood and really study it hard. Also read the Book of Job and Enoch--->Then apply some Science knowledge to it and you will have your answer to what killed the Mammoths

Fine fairy tale but scientific rubbish
What a disppointment.The author, a geologist, falls flat in this book.He strays into areas of expertise with grand claims and zero proof.He does not refer to his ideas as theories but as fact.Aside from the joy ride around good questions, the book is filled with extreme political correctness...Why are SUV's, Republicans, and present day humans always the ones that are to blame for extinctions that happened thousands of years ago (now you get an idea of what light that this book was written in).Pure rubbish as a science book.Great for "politically correctness" fans.

Zero Stars<br>

It remains mysterious that humans are held to be the cause of any kind of phenomenon that is otherwise unexplainable within a uniformitarian framework.The mammoths went extinct precisely where they'd have had no food supply to build their population to such high levels, nor indeed to support so much as a herd.

In other words, they didn't go extinct because of conditions that exist today, but they did go extinct due to natural conditions.And not due to fictional bands of ravenous human hunters.

This book should appeal to the knee-jerk reactionaries who sanctimoniously hand down judgments about the lifestyles of the rest of us.This book is worth less than fossilized mammoth dung.

Ward nailed it!
Some truths are self-evident. That human beings are likely responsible for the mass extinctions of the Pleistocene megafauna is one of these truths. That we are still in the process of exterminating the remnants of the Pleistocene megafauna is another of these truths.

Mr. Ward, in addition to being a fine scholar, is also a very talented writer who adds a generous touch of humanity to what could have been a very dry and intellectual read. I highly recommend this book. It's eye-opening, sometimes frightening, but largely on target. All in all, it's the best book on the disappearance of our era's megafauna since Leakey's THE FIFTH EXTINCTION, and the two books will share shelf space in my office. ... Read more

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

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The Gumble twins take their pet mammoth to school, causing quite a spectacle both there and on the class trip to the animal park. ... Read more

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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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RECENT ICE AGE PARADIGM EXPLAINED
I found this book to be a breath of fresh air.Dr. Oard's background in meteorology has uniquely prepared him to give a rational explanation of atmospheric conditions that could have existed after the world catastrophe described byCreationists.This book gives scientific answers to many questions that cannot be clearly explained by uniformitarianism. For example, what caused the Ice Age, why do we find disharmonious fossils together (eg. wooly mammoths and hippos), what stopped the Ice Age, why did the mammoths and other Ice Age animals die off if the weather was getting warmer?Yes, undoubtedly there are some areas where more research is needed.But the explanations given are logical and harmonious with the evidence found in nature.One's world view does affect how things in nature are understood.In this case, the short earth history worldview best explains the Ice Age & associated events.

Creation Science proves a predictive mechanism for Ice Age
Frozen in Time by Michael Oard

Like many children, my fascination with mammoths began long before I could understand the science.Maybe I caught the tone of mystery when anyone wrote or talked about these huge wooly beasts of the past.As I have grown up, I have gradually gained more knowledge of the mysteries surrounding mammoths and their ice age.Like the dinosaur question, how did they all die?Why were they living in Siberia and Alaska in the first place?These ivory-tusked creatures of legend have on occasion been found mummified, almost whole, standing upright in the permafrost.How did that happen, and what does it tell us about the climate of the past?

For a creationist, curiosities related to extinction and weather always bring to mind the Flood.How much did the world change when God judged mankind by sending a global catastrophe?Are we still affected today by the aftershocks of the Flood?So for a person like me, a book giving a scientific creationist perspective on the Ice Age and the Mammoth mystery is gold.Michael Oard, a meteorologist, has written such a book.

Frozen in Time is well-constituted, moving through a thorough introduction of the subject and mysteries to a presentation of the Creationist Flood model and its Ice Age mechanism followed by a summary of secular theories and their difficulties, finishing with an exploration of the evidence for and against the proposed explanations for the Ice Age and the demise of the seemingly out of place mammoths.Michael Oard is willing to criticize both secular and creationist scientist for jumping to conclusions about the extinction of mammoths, pointing out that a deep snap freeze is not necessary to preserve a few mammoths in standing position with relatively unspoiled food in their stomachs.His book provides an alternative and points out that most mammoths appear to have died and been buried in more normal ways.

Aside from including very interesting tidbits about mammoth finds, other large mammals associated with the Ice Age, elephant taxonomy, and weather patterns, Frozen in Time is an important book because it is yet another evidence that the sciences built on uniformitarianism (demanding an old earth and repeating processes in nature) cut the floor from under themselves.By excluding short timelines and catastrophic possibilities because of their bias, secular scientists have no chance of following the evidence where it leads.Like trying to figure out which paints to mix to create green when the existence of blue is denied, the scientists are figuratively mixing any color except for blue, and are frustrated that they have not been able to explain green.This is bad science.

Creation science, on the other hand, not only solves puzzling natural phenomenon (and no, we do not solve everything by saying "God did it."), but provides us with useful sciences and models.In this book are included speculations about cavemen, about classification, the adaptability of animals to different climates, geology, geography, global warming or cooling, and migration of man and beasts.

To God be all glory,
Lisa of Longbourn

interesting theories regarding the ice age and the flood
This book had some very interesting and plausible theories regarding the Ice Age and the biblical flood. By explaining the necessary components for beginning an Ice Age, and how the Genesis flood was capable of fulfilling these components, Mr. Oard makes a compelling case for how the Ice Age may have been initiated and sustained. I also enjoyed the discussions on the Woolly Mammoth. And, by discussing many opposing theories in great detail, Mr. Oard enables the reader to draw their own conclusions. But what makes this book most appealing is its ability to take complex scientific information and present it in a way that is comprehensible to the layman.

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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A fun tale
A hilarious series of events makes PIPER REED: THE GREAT GYPSY a fun read. Neal Layton's THE MAMMOTH ACADEMY tells of Oscar and his sister, beginning their first year at Mammoth Academy. Oscar isn't fond of schoolwork but he loves outdoor sports and is friends with Fox, until a kitchen theft involves him in a difficult investigation of possible human thieves. A fun tale evolves.

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It is very good because I like the part where Oscar and the fox meet the humans and then the part where the humans think Oscar and the fox are a four-eyed monster. It is a very funny book. I love the maps and the illustrations. ... 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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How to Make Prehistoric Animals Boring
I think I've figured out why I found this for a pittance in the clearance bin at my local grocery store:

nothing happens.

Woolly Mammoth might be bigger and badder than an elephant, but you wouldn't know it from this book, in which a woolly mammoth gets separated from his herd and frightens off some sabre-tooth tigers before rejoining it.

Forty-odd years ago when I was sneaking into the "big kids'" section of the library in order to find prehistoric animal books, I would read about something eating something else or being killed while trying to eat something else.

Lovely artwork, careful vetting by paleontologists, and great production values are wasted on a scientifically realistic prehistoric animal story so politically correct that no one gets hurt...

or, I might add, entertained. ... Read more