Ice Mummy

The Discovery of a 5,000 Year-Old Man

Paperback
$4.99 US
On sale Oct 27, 1998 | 48 Pages | 9780679856474
Reading paragraphs

In 1991, two tourists hiking in the Alps saw something very odd sticking out of the snow. At first it looked like a doll’s head. But it wasn’t. It was a man, frozen in the ice for 5,000 years. Ice Mummy—first published by Random House in 1998—tells the story of this amazing discovery, from the struggle to remove the mummy from his icy grave to the creation of his final resting place: a specially designed refrigeration chamber in his own museum in Bolzano, Italy.

Now updated to include shocking new evidence that the Iceman was murdered—shot with an arrow after hand-to-hand combat with an assailant—Ice Mummy will provide young readers with more chills than ever!
Mark Dubowski is an illustrator and the author of the Step into Reading book Ice Mummy: The Discovery of a 5,000-Year-Old Man. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.  View titles by Mark Dubowski
Cathy East Dubowski has written and adapted several books for Penguin Young Readers, including Pirate School and Anna Sewell's Black Beauty. Dubowski is also an editor, illustrator, and narrator. View titles by Cathy East Dubowski

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Reading paragraphs

In 1991, two tourists hiking in the Alps saw something very odd sticking out of the snow. At first it looked like a doll’s head. But it wasn’t. It was a man, frozen in the ice for 5,000 years. Ice Mummy—first published by Random House in 1998—tells the story of this amazing discovery, from the struggle to remove the mummy from his icy grave to the creation of his final resting place: a specially designed refrigeration chamber in his own museum in Bolzano, Italy.

Now updated to include shocking new evidence that the Iceman was murdered—shot with an arrow after hand-to-hand combat with an assailant—Ice Mummy will provide young readers with more chills than ever!

Author

Mark Dubowski is an illustrator and the author of the Step into Reading book Ice Mummy: The Discovery of a 5,000-Year-Old Man. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.  View titles by Mark Dubowski
Cathy East Dubowski has written and adapted several books for Penguin Young Readers, including Pirate School and Anna Sewell's Black Beauty. Dubowski is also an editor, illustrator, and narrator. View titles by Cathy East Dubowski

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