Illustration by: Photographer
Genre: Children's nonfiction
Subgenre: Informative
Theme: Historical Glaciers
Primary characters: Husband, Wife, Otzi
Awards: Robert F. Sibert Winner
Date of Publication: 2009
Publishing Company: Houghton Mifflin Company
Summary: It's a story a husband and a wife that climb a mountain in northern Italy in 1991. The couple come across a human corpse left beside a melting glacier. They later discover that this corpse was Otzi. This was one of the most important archeological discoveries. There have been discoveries of human bodies from the Andes Mountains, Himalayas, and the European Alps because of the melting glaciers. In this story the couple discovers many stories behind the melting glaciers. This would be very informative for a classroom while drawing attention from the interesting stories.
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