Woolly Mammoth - Softcover

Manning, Mick; Granström, Brita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847802109 ISBN 13: 9781847802101

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2011

Synopsis

Have you ever wondered what life was like for the Woolly Mammoth? It was very hard! These kings of the elephant race faced the harsh Ice Age climate and the threat of natural predators - none more terrifying than Man and his merciless spear. Includes an illustrated fact strip giving more information on how we know about the lives of mammoths today, taken from the very latest mammoth findings.

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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: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1847802109
• ISBN 13: 9781847802101
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32