Frank Carlson Library

The long-awaited fourth installment of the Earth's Children series is as warm and inviting as its campfire milieu. sure fire bestseller. Auel again describes her characters' travails, a passionate interest of millions of readers, in impeccably researched detail. The continuous recitation of flora and fauna, coupled with flashbacks to events in the previous books, becomes somewhat tiresome, however. (Would that our "memory" were as instinctual as that...

Here is the saga of a people who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear: how they lived, the animals they hunted, the great totems they revered. But mostly it is a story of Ayla, the girl they found and raised, a girl who was not like them.

An account of the adventures of the Binkerton family, who travel back in time to Ice Age Europe.

Join Ice Age's herd of prehistoric pals as they embark on a rescue mission across melting snow to the mysterious Dinosaur World.

Introduces the animals of the Ice Ages, including the woolly mammoth, giant wombat, and cave bear; provides maps showing where fossils of each have been found; and compares the size of each to man.