Eyr the Hunter: A Story Of Ice-Age America [Hardcover]

Margaret Searcy (Author), Joyce Haynes (Illustrator)

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Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up

Having reached the age when he can hunt alone, Eyr is sent to scout the large beasts that roam the tundra, especially the wooly mammoths.

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Eyr's band is hungry and in need of new skins. The old seer predicts a coming snow and, without a good supply of meat, the band may starve or die of cold. Eyr walks over meadows and hills with the other hunters, looking for tracks, but they return with little game. That night Eyr dreams of killing the great wooly mammoth with his sharp spear. He imagines how his band would dance and feast, with food to last them through the dark winter. The next morning the band's hunterleader wakes him. Having reached the age when he can hunt alone, Eyr is sent to scout the large beasts that roam the tundra, especially the wooly mammoths. Armed with only his cape, his knife, his spear, and a smoldering ember, Eyr sets out to become a man and save his band.

Told in rhyming couplets just as many ancient storytellers told the epic tales of the past, Eyr the Hunter: A Story of Ice-Age America is both an accurate portrayal of the way ice-age man lived and an entertaining story.

Margaret Zehmer Searcy is a cultural anthropologist who has taught classes about Native Americans and their customs for more than two decades in the Department of Anthropology at The University of Alabama. Joyce Haynes received a degree from the University of Southwestern Louisiana at Lafayette in commercial art. An illustrator of over a dozen books, she has won numerous local, state, and national awards for her illustrations. She lives in Southwest Missouri. -- From the Publisher

About the Author

Margaret Searcy's special mission has been to teach Indian and non-Indian students of all ages about the richness of Indian culture. Searcy was a member of the department of anthropology at the University of Alabama for twenty-four years.

Joyce Haynes, a resident of Pineville, Missouri, has won numerous local, state, and national awards for her illustrations.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Hardcover: 40 pages
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing (October 31, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565541014
• ISBN-13: 978-1565541016
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,229,850 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #92 in Books > Children's Books > Literature & Fiction > Historical Fiction > Prehistory

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eyr the Hunter, Right on Target, July 21, 2000

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This review is from: Eyr the Hunter: A Story Of Ice-Age America (Hardcover)

"Eyr the Hunter" is an outstanding story that lifts children's literature to a new height. The rhyming cadences charm, and encourage expressive reading. Any reader who experiments with the beat of a drum to accompany the tale of Eyr will be in for a treat. This tale works on several levels; here we have history, adventure, character building, anthropology, and respect for the environment. Margaret Searcy has created an engaging hero, one whom we can cheer through his ordeal and eventual triumph.