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Toby and the Ice Giants


No. of pages 32

Published: 2015

Great for age 3-10 years

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Join Toby the Bison in this fact-filled adventure as he explores the Ice Age Tundra and meets some of the giants that roamed its icy surface.Ten-thousand years ago, the Earth was in the grips of what Paleontologists call the Last Glacial Period, but what you and I have come to know as the Ice Age. The inhabitants?of this frozen landscape lived in some of the coldest conditions the earth has ever experienced. But before these giants grew to their great size, they were young and, like Toby, very, very inquisitive.Toby and the Ice Giants is a wonderfully illustrated story that delivers digestible facts about the Earth's historic inhabitants. Share in Toby's lively curiosity, experience the danger of the polar climes and meet some larger-than-life characters on the way.

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 5-7 years.

There are 32 pages in this book.

This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+).

This book was published in 2015 by Flying Eye Books .

Joe Lillington was born in London and studied illustration at Falmouth University. He was recently commissioned to illustrate the cover of Stew Magazine, illustrated a short story in AMBIT magazine, and has exhibited at Light Grey Art Lab shows and the Just Us collective show.

 

Lillington's cartoons bring a retro Golden Books charm to the prehistoric setting, while sidebars offer details about each animal's diet, habitat, and more. It's an appealing introduction to eight bygone species and one (ours) that's "Still Going!"

 

--Publisher's Weekly

Young viewers will marvel at the succession of massive ruminants and predators, which Lillington renders in watercolors with reasonable accuracy, if anthropomorphic facial expressions.

 

--Kirkus Reviews

No page, not even the endpapers, is wasted in this appealing and informative visit to prehistory

 

--Wall Street Journal

Lillington's cartoons bring a retro Golden Books charm to the prehistoric setting, while sidebars offer details about each animal's diet, habitat, and more. It's an appealing introduction to eight bygone species and one (ours) that's "Still Going!"

 

--Publisher's Weekly

Young viewers will marvel at the succession of massive ruminants and predators, which Lillington renders in watercolors with reasonable accuracy, if anthropomorphic facial expressions.

 

--Kirkus Reviews

No page, not even the endpapers, is wasted in this appealing and informative visit to prehistory

 

--Wall Street Journal