Eyr the Hunter A Story of Ice-Age America

Travel back 12,000 years and learn of Eyr, a youngster who saved histribe from a woolly mammoth as they traveled from Siberia to Alaska . . . welltold in metered verse that flows smoothly throughout . . . Realistic sketches inburnished colored pencil show details of clothing, family life, andgeography.--Childrenis LiteratureIn this tale, a young Ice-Age boy plays a key role in the survival of hisband more than twelve thousand years ago. Eyris band is hungry and in need ofnew skins. The old seer predicts a coming snow, and without a good supply ofmeat, the band may starve or die of cold. Eyr walks over meadows and hills withthe other hunters looking for tracks, but they return with little game. Thatnight Eyr dreams of killing the great woolly mammoth with his sharp spear. Heimagines how his band would dance and feast, with food to last them through thedark winter. The next morning the bandis hunter-leader wakes him. Havingreached the age that he can hunt alone, Eyr is sent to scout the large beaststhat roam the tundra, especially the woolly mammoths. Taking only his cape, hisknife, his spear, and a smoldering ember, Eyr sets out to become a man and savehis band.Told in rhyming couplets, just as many ancient storytellers told the epictales of the past, Eyr the Hunter: A Story of Ice-Age America isbased upon many facts. Margaret Zehmer Searcy is a cultural anthropologist whohas taught classes about Native Americans and their customs for more than twodecades in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. She hasvisited archaeological sites and is familiar with the kinds of animals thatexisted in the Ice-Age landscape.Joyce Haynes has won numerous local, state, and national awards for herillustrations. She has illustrated more than a dozen books and is the author of DrawingWild Animals . She lives in Southwest Missouri.A story both involving and entertaining, Eyr the Hunter: A Story ofIce-Age America is made all the more moving by its wonderful rhythms anduse of vivid detail. A childrenis book that can be likened to the Clan of theCave Bear series, this book can also be useful for explaining how the earliestAmericans led their lives. It is a wonderful tie-in to any discussion aboutnative cultures around the world as well.Searcy, Margaret Zehmer is the author of 'Eyr the Hunter A Story of Ice-Age America' with ISBN 9781565541016 and ISBN 1565541014.