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Ice Mummy (Step-Into-Reading, Step 4)

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By: Mark Dubowski
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EDITORIAL REVIEW

In 1991, two tourists hiking in the Alps saw something very odd sticking out of the snow. At first it looked like a doll's head. But it wasn't. It was a man, frozen in the ice for 5,000 years.

This is the story of the Ice Mummy, written for the first time in an easy-to-read format. It's also the only book to include information about the Mummy's latest incarnation--as a museum exhibit in Bolzano, Italy. On public view for the first time ever, he now enjoys a few twentieth century comforts, including a specially designed refrigeration chamber that re-creates the icy conditions of the glacier where he was found!

PRODUCT DETAILS

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date: 27th October 1998
Catalog: Book
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 48
Ean: 9780679856474
Isbn: 0679856471

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USER REVIEWS

The Mummy Returns (not the movie)
~ Written on May 7, 2005. 2 out of 3 users found this review helpful.

I Think the 5,000 year old Mummy is very good discovery. I never knew that there could be a Mummy in the alps or any other extremely cold moutain area. (I was just plain dumb about that).
I Think that this book about the Ice Mummy is very good to learn
about. (Besides King Tutankahamun). The Mummy, i realized can be almost anywhere, but not the USA. You can learn from this
discovery, many of you.

The Ice Mummy review
~ Written on Apr 2, 2004. out of 1 users found this review helpful.

The Ice Mummy

(...) I think that it is a very good book for 8 to 10 years old. I think that they would understand it a lot better than younger kids because it is not as simple as some book are. I really like this book a lot it was better than i though it would be. They have found out a little bit more information about the ice mummy.(...) The movie is more up to date because they have found out more information since the book has been produced.

Ice Mummy the ice mummy
~ Written on Apr 2, 2004. out of users found this review helpful.

the ice mummy
my favorite chapter in ice mummy is chapter 6, time traveler. i savor that chapter because it tells about how he died and where he died .
i believe the age group is 9 and up. one reason i think that is because it shows stuff little kids should not be able to see or read about.
i enjoyed the book because it was interesting to read about. it also had the tools that the ice mummy had with him when he died. the people in the book tried to figure out how the ice mummy was killed in the book.
the ice mummy is not up to date because the book was made in 1998. the ice mummy video was made in 2001. the book says that the ice mummy died from freezing to death. in the movie it says that he was shot in the back by a man who must have been mad at him.

Ice Mummy
~ Written on Mar 31, 2004. out of users found this review helpful.

Ice Mummy by : Mark Dubowski
The Ice Mummy is an excellent book . It is appropriate for everyone at all ages 3 and up because it is good that kids can learn about mummy. I like chapter 2 because it has really good and it has great pictures . It is a superior book i f you like any kind of mummy. I like the book use it is good and I like any kind of mummy. Yes the movie of the Ice mummy is up to date, but the book Ice Mummy is not up to date So the movie is but the book is not.

Great introduction, but missing crucial info
~ Written on Jan 19, 2004. 4 out of 4 users found this review helpful.

My son brought this book home from school, and we both enjoyed reading it. It was a good reading level for him (he's a precocious 6 1/2). It's an endlessly fascinating topic, one of the most significant finds ever in the field of archeology, it would seem.

But there is a large and surprising omission from the story of the Iceman, which is that he died not from hypothermia as "Ice Mummy" claims, but from being shot by an arrow. The flint arrowhead is embedded in his shoulder, but its existence was overlooked (incredibly) for two whole years after his discovery. "Ice Mummy", however, was published seven years after the discovery, so one wonders why this information is not included.

Except for this big hole, it's a great book, and even *with* the hole, I still recommend it, especially if you can fill in the remaining part of the story yourself (it's easy to find more information on the net).

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