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Ice Mummy: The Discovery of a 5,000-Year-Old Man (Step into Reading, Step 4)
In 1991, two tourists hiking in the Alps come upon something odd sticking out of the snow. At first it looks like a doll's head. But it's not. It's a frozen man! And so jumpstarts the story of Otzi, the Ice Mummy -- the best-preserved prehistoric man ever discovered.
Hardcover, 48 pages
Published
October 27th 1998
by Turtleback Books
(first published October 1st 1998)
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Just when I was so happy reading the Junie B Jones books with my son he comes home with this-complete with photographs! He's ridiculously proud to have picked out such a gross book.
The ice mummy was found in the Alps in 1991. In the pictures he looks like an overcooked chicken wing. Seriously, this book is disturbingly gross. Reading it was like watching Fear Factor, I kept flip flopping between gagging and laughing until I couldn't speak. I realize that makes me sound insane but that's how I w...more
The ice mummy was found in the Alps in 1991. In the pictures he looks like an overcooked chicken wing. Seriously, this book is disturbingly gross. Reading it was like watching Fear Factor, I kept flip flopping between gagging and laughing until I couldn't speak. I realize that makes me sound insane but that's how I w...more
May 30, 2013
L11Beverly Kennett
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
info-bios
Very interesting! Good scientific information, including how people interfere with discoveries, how artifacts can be damaged, how artifacts need to be preserved, how they can give us information, etc. the book includes two theories of how the mummy was created with no consensus on one over the other.
We actually have a different version of this book. It's a Step Into Reading Book but I a "Step 4" printed in 2009.
Anyway, my 7 year old and I both loved this book. That's mostly to do with the fascinating and somewhat gruesome subject matter. But this book was easily tackled by my reluctant reader at age 7 so is best for the average reader who is ready for chapters that include about 4 paragraphs to some pages, mostly 1 or 2 per page. The awesome and gross photographs (all the illustrations ar...more
Anyway, my 7 year old and I both loved this book. That's mostly to do with the fascinating and somewhat gruesome subject matter. But this book was easily tackled by my reluctant reader at age 7 so is best for the average reader who is ready for chapters that include about 4 paragraphs to some pages, mostly 1 or 2 per page. The awesome and gross photographs (all the illustrations ar...more
Apr 08, 2013
Nerissa Lindauer
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
informational,
transitional-chapter-book
This is a great book it would keep the children very interested about the history of the mummy and the mummy's story the book would be great to use when drawling conclusions.
Mar 08, 2013
Emily Rosbottom
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
transitional-chapter-book,
informational
Students would love love LOVE this book! Very cool to learn about an icy discovery, and what past cultures and civilizations were like.
Students would love this nonfiction book. Even though it's nonfiction students would be engaged through it all.
saw this book at the library and couldn't pass it up. It's about the ice mummy, and how much more badass can you get?? An ice f'ing mummy!
Overall this book was very interesting and I learned a lot about the mummy, although it also makes it sound like the scientists and police at the time were totally clueless.. leaving the mummy unattended for days so tourists could mess with it and take souvenirs, using a jackhammer to get the mummy out of the ice and damaging it, letting the mummy thaw out and...more
Overall this book was very interesting and I learned a lot about the mummy, although it also makes it sound like the scientists and police at the time were totally clueless.. leaving the mummy unattended for days so tourists could mess with it and take souvenirs, using a jackhammer to get the mummy out of the ice and damaging it, letting the mummy thaw out and...more
interesting
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very interesting. . . .. .
Super-duper cool!
Mar 09, 2013
Shannon Jackson
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
historical-fiction,
informational
Jan 24, 2013
Noelia
marked it as to-read
Dec 27, 2012
Muttix
marked it as to-read
Oct 16, 2012
Jocelyne
marked it as to-read
Sep 30, 2012
Dylan Sweeney
is currently reading it
Jul 24, 2012
Stephen Griffith
marked it as to-read
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review of another edition
Shelves:
lorraine-s-project
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