Eyr the Hunter: A Story of Ice-Age America

by Margaret Zehmer Searcy

"Travel back 12,000 years and learn of Eyr, a youngster who saved his tribe from a woolly mammoth as they traveled from Siberia to Alaska . . . well told in metered verse that flows smoothly throughout . . . Realistic sketches in burnished colored pencil show details of clothing, family life, and geography."
--Children's Literature

In this tale, a young Ice-Age boy plays a key role in the survival of his band more than twelve thousand...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565541014
• ISBN13: 9781565541016
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Eyr the Hunter, Right on Target

"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.