Woolly Mammoth

by Gerry Bailey, Karen Carr

Overview

This book tells the story of the Woolly Mammoth, an animal that lived during the last Ice Age. Its long outer hair and inner layer of wool helped it withstand the bitterly cold conditions. Huge curved tusks were used to dig for food under the snow and as a powerful weapon against enemies. The Woolly Mammoth weighed up to six-and-a-half tons (six metric tons) and stood ten feet (three meters) tall.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780778718215
Publisher:	Crabtree Classics
Publication date:	01/31/2011
Series:	Smithsonian Prehistoric Zone , #12
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	NC780L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

Editorial Reviews

Gr 2–3—Issued less than a decade ago under different titles (that were packaged with foldout posters and read-aloud CDs to boot), these editions preserve the original illustrations but include rewritten fictional storylines and add a boilerplate opening spread on prehistoric creatures. Also new are three closing spreads of information about the highlighted animal and related topics, such as a look at mammoth-bone huts in Woolly Mammoth. The art in Parasaurolophus is blurry, and in other volumes the dino-figures visibly float over hazed generic prehistoric scenes. The closing indexes, glossaries, and reading lists are perfunctory at best.

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