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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
108 pages ; cm.
Description
Go back 20,000 years ago to a time of much colder global temperatures when glaciers and extensive sheets of ice covered much of our planet. As these sheets traveled, they caused enormous changes in the Earth's landscape and climate, leading to the evolution of creatures such as giant armadillos, saber-toothed cats, and woolly mammoths as well as club-wielding Neanderthals and later the cleverer modern humans. Nico Medina re-creates this harsh ancient...
Author
Series
First North Americans volume 14
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
477 p. ; 25 cm.
Author
Series
Earth's children volume 6
Description
Continuing the story of Ayla and Jondalar, Auel combines her brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived more than 25,000 years ago.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
45 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
The Cat in the Hat visits with Ice Age mammals on a whirlwind tour of the Pleistocene! From ground sloths as big as elephants to bears as heavy as Volkswagens, the Cat introduces young readers to mastodons, mammoths, woolly rhinos, saber-toothed cats, giant horses, and lots more -- including humans! In addition, young readers will learn basic facts about the Great Ice Age and early human life, the characteristics of mammals, and the study of fossils....
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age, tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York City and the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid. Now, climatologist Jack Hall, his son Sam, and a small band of survivors must ride out the growing superstorm and stay alive in the face of an enemy more powerful and relentless than anything anyone has ever encountered: Mother Nature.
9) Snowfall
Author
Series
Snowfall trilogy volume 1
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Snowfall features another sharp-tongued, uncompromising heroine, Catania Olsen. She is the doctor for and spiritual guardian of a band of hunters who live at the edge of a great Wall of ice in what was once Colorado. In the country of the Trappers, books are hand-copied so that knowledge may be preserved, but the technology described in their precious pages is mostly lost to their fur-clad readers, despite Catania's attempts at scientific treatment...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While Scrat the Saber-toothed Squirrel is still trying to find his precious acorn, the misfit trio of Manny the Mammoth, Sid the Sloth and Diego the Sabre-tooth Tiger have settled down in an isolated valley with numerous other animals. However, the trio soon discover that the ice wall surrounding the valley is barely holding back a massive body of water behind it and the melting state threatens to break the wall and flood the valley. With their one...
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Series
Earth's children volume 1
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Description
An injured and orphaned infant carries within her the seed and hope of mankind in this epic of survival and destiny set at the dawn of prehistory
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Series
Earth's children volume 5
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Description
"The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar?s people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii fascinate Ayla. Their clothes, customs, artifacts, even their homes?formed in great cliffs of vertical limestone?are a source of wonder to her. And in the woman Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of the...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As the ice age comes to an end, Manny, a woolly mammoth, and his friends make their way to a distant part of their valley to escape the oncoming flood waters from the melting glaciers.
Author
Series
Earth's children volume 4
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Description
Orphaned Ayla, and wandering Jondalar, set out on horseback across the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe, looking for a place they can call home. In the course of their cross-continental odyssey, Ayla and Jondalar encounter both savage enemies and brave friends. Together they learn that the vast and unknown world can be difficult and dangerous, but breathtakingly beautiful and enlightening as well.
16) Ice age
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a woolly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe.
Author
Series
Good Times Travel Agency volume 6
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
The Binkerton twins and their little sister, while returning to the Good Times Travel Agency, are transported to the Ice Age, where they encounter a large wooly mammoth who shows them how to survive this frozen landscape. Presented in comic book format, the story is used to teach about an important period in history--the Ice Age.
Author
Series
Earth's children volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Ayla, cast out of the Clan, has been forced to follow the advice given her in the first book by her dying foster-mother Iza. She goes in search of "the Others"—that is, people like herself: European Cro-Magnon Homo sapiens, or early-modern humans, returned west and north to Europe after an incubation period of tens of millennia in the near and far east.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
[xvi, 269] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. Scientists squabble over the locations and dates for human arrival in the New World. The first explorers were few, encampments fleeting. At some point in time, between twenty and forty thousand years...
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