Meet Lyubathe most perfectly preserved baby mammoth ever discovered! Found lying along a riverside 31,000 years after her birth, Lyuba provides a never-before-seen view of prehistoric life in Siberia. Together with award-winning author Christopher Sloan, kids learn the story of her discovery by the indigenous Nenet people and peak inside Lyubas mysterious prehistoric world. Readers will join scientists as they recreate Lyubas life and death using cutting edge scienceincluding palaeontology, radiology, and forensic scienceand reveal new information about mammoths and their ice age home. Lyubas incredible story, which debuted as a National Geographic Channel exclusive and as articles in National Geographic magazine and National Geographic Kids magazine, is certain to be a fascinating read for kids and a great complement to science curriculum.

 

 

This book features in the following series: National Geographic Kids, Stories From History .

There are 48 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2011 by National Geographic Kids .

National Geographic Kids collaborates to put forth fun and interesting non-fiction for kids. Christopher Sloan is a Senior Editor at National Geographic magazine and the author of two previous books for children--Feathered Dinosaurs (a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year) and SuperCroc and the Origins of Crocodiles. Mr. Sloan lives in Virginia.