Woolly Mammoth - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845078608 ISBN 13: 9781845078607

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2009

Synopsis

What was life like for the woolly mammoth, who roamed the Earth starting over 100,000 years ago? What did these big shaggy beasts eat? Did they have enemies? Did they have families? Did they have fun? In this book, Mick Manning and Brita Granström show that woolly mammoths were the powerhouses of their time, braving terrible climates and fending off natural predators, the most terrifying of which were human beings! These fascinating creatures appear in their natural habitat, grazing, fighting, and even relaxing and playing with their mates and offspring. Fact-checked by mammoth expert Professor Adrian Lister, the book highlights the latest discoveries about the species and includes a glossary, an illustrative fact strip, and a geological timeline. The authors’ trademark poetic text and vibrant illustrations bring the beasts to life for young readers.

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About the Author

Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom have won many awards for their picture information books, including the Smarties Silver Award and the English Association Award. Their books for Frances Lincoln include The Beatles, Charles Dickens: Scenes from an Extraordinary Life, What Mr Darwin Saw, Tail-End Charlie, Taff in the WAAF, The Secrets of Stonehenge, Dino-Dinners, Woolly Mammoth, the Fly on the Wall series: Roman Fort, Viking Longship, Pharaoh's Egypt and Greek Hero, and Nature Adventures. They have four sons, and divide their time between the North of England and Brita's homeland of Sweden. Find out more about their books at www.mickandbrita.com.MICK MANNING˙and˙BRITA GRANSTRÖM˙have developed a unique approach to picture information books over the last 21 years. Sharing˙the illustration between them and mixing words and pictures in inventive ways, they have won many awards, including the Smarties Silver˙Award, and are five-times winners of the English Association Award. Mick fell in love with wildlife on primary school nature walks many years˙ago, and has an MA in Natural History Illustration from the Royal College of Art. Brita grew up on a farm, and has an MFA from Konstfack in˙Stockholm. They spend a lot of their time having both Swedish and British Wild Adventures with their four children. Their other books for Frances Lincoln include:˙The Beatles;˙Charles Dickens,˙Scenes from an Extraordinary Life;˙What˙Mr Darwin Saw;˙Tail-End Charlie;˙Taff in the WAAF;˙The Secrets of Stonehenge;˙Woolly Mammoth;˙and˙the˙Fly on the Wall˙series:˙Roman˙Fort, Viking Longship;˙Pharoah's Egypt;˙Greek Hero.

From Booklist

Manning and Granström, whose previous nonfiction picture books include What Mr. Darwin Saw (2009) and Viking Longship (2007), now introduce woolly mammoths. The large illustrations, black pencil drawings tinted with watercolors, use wonderfully scruffy lines to depict mammoths foraging, warding off wolves, defending their “unbelievably cute” calves, as well as being hunted by Ice Age humans, who use their body parts for meat, clothing, shelter, and weaponry. The book includes two kinds of text. For younger children, there are uneven rhyming verses written in the colloquial, somewhat anthropomorphic voice of a mammoth, a self-described “big hairy beastie” and “gentle giant,” ferocious only in defense and worried about extinction. Running in the narrow panels alongside each wide, double-page spread are interesting bits of related information printed in smaller type and illustrated with brown pencil drawings. A time line and glossary are appended. Published in association with London’s Natural History Museum. Grades K-3. --Carolyn Phelan

About this edition

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1845078608
• ISBN 13: 9781845078607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Manning Mick, Granström Brita