I was unable to download and read this book before it expired, so I'm unable to give an honest review of it.

A fantastic non-fiction book for children.

Illustrations are relevant and eye-pleasing to children while also being historically correct.

It is important that today's children understand the changes that are happening due to climate change.

I believe it is very important for children to learn about the correlation between the actions of people and the deterioration of the environment. It is never too early to get kids involved in the environmental movement.

I rate this book as 4 OUT OF 5 STARS ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for providing me with a free copy of this book for review purposes.

Out of the Ice explores artifacts and ____ that are being discovered as a result of climate change. The chapters cover how global warming is affecting ice patches, glaciers, and permafrost. The illustrations and text features are important to understanding the text and do a good job of further explaining the ext. However, after the first to chapters, I began to lose interest due to little engagement. I enjoyed learning about how climate change is affecting our world, but would've liked to see a section discussing what scientists are going to do with this information and/or the impact of climate change and finding such artifacts. Overall I would recommend for middle and high school science classrooms, but I would pair this text with articles or other texts that discuss the implications/impact of climate change.

Global Warming is hindering science as well as the health of the earth. This books helps let the readers learn more about the past and the importance of the ice. The lessons on the ice needing to remain cold for science and history are awesome lessons that I will be passing onto my students.

This is a fantastic nonfiction book to introduce students to the idea that not all archaeology is comprised of fossils within rocks. Mammoths, mummies, clothing, tools . . . many things have been preserved in glaciers and other cold places. For students who are young or very sensitive, the photographs of mummies or the description of child sacrifice that created some mummies may be a bit much, but for most students this book will be deeply interesting!

The bad thing about climate change is that all the worlds ice is melting. Ice that has not melted for thousands of years. That means the sea levels will go up, and that the Arctic and Anarchic are shrinking.

But, one small good thing about all this, is that trapped in the ice, has been our ancestors. Ice is an excellent method of preservation, and archeologists are finding bodies and materials in the ice that are surprisingly well preserved.

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The book is well laid out, and the sections talk about each major find, where it was found, and what the scientists were able to figure out about it.

Well put together, and interesting to read.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review

This is a fascinating glimpse at many ancient people who have been preserved in ice! I started reading it one morning, and when I had to leave, one of my children picked it up and read the whole thing. We didn't agree with the dates given, but the rest of the book was quite good.
I received a free ecopy of this book from NetGalley and chose to write a review.

Probably 3.5 stars

This book presents an overview of the kinds of artifacts that are coming to light as climate change causes a melting of the earth’s cryosphere. It’s organized around specific sections. The first four chapters deal with ice patches. The second section includes three chapters about glaciers. The four chapters in the third section deal with permafrost and finally there is a chapter about the cryosphere in general.

The layout is pleasing. Information on each page is accompanied by illustrations and photographs. Most of these have captions that explain what is happening. The illustrations give the reader a sense of what the world was like at the time the discovered artifacts were created.
There are sidebars with additional data. The back matter contains a glossary, an index, a timeline, and a list of where to go for further information.

I sure wish this book had been around when I working with a group of classrooms doing research on aspects of the hydrosphere. I would have purchased at least one copy. This book will be an invaluable resource in Elementary schools in all kinds of ways. Budding archeologists and anthropologists will be fascinated. So too will young meteorologists and hydrologists. Who doesn't want to read about ancient hunters and their tools, learn about mummies, and ancient rituals? It’s a fun and informative read for all of us.

However, I have one significant criticism of this book. While it does discuss how rapidly major aspects of the cryosphere are melting, at no point does it address the implications for how devastating this is going to be.

Let's face it - it's not going to be, "Oh goody! Look at what we can learn as all this ice melts."

Out of the Ice: How Climate Change is Revealing the Past by Claire Eamer & Drew Shannon is a neat little book introducing middle-grade readers to archaeology, which I'm always in favour of. I learned about a new branch of archaeology! Called glacial archaeology, it is the study of artifacts and the like emerging from the earth’s cryosphere, or cold layer. Rising temperatures are melting the glaciers, ice caps, and permafrost, revealing formerly hidden sites. The book is divided into sections that look at ice patches, glaciers, and permafrost finds from around the world. Thanks to the preservation quality of the cold, archaeologists are able to learn a great deal about past flora and fauna, and about our ancestors’ ways of life. The information was easy to read and process for younger readers, but still interesting for adults. Perfect addition to any middle school science class library!

***Many thanks to Netgalley and Kids Can Press for providing an egalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Out of the Ice is packed with information about more recent discoveries from melting ice; contains a glossary, timeline, and index; and is illustrated with a mix of photographs and illustrations. I absolutely plan on sharing this with students, either directly with classes or through the teaching staff, depending on curricular needs. The subject matter aligns nicely with middle grade/middle school social studies/history, but will be of interest to students who enjoy history or learning how climate change affects the planet in unforeseen ways. There are a handful of pictures/narratives that may be upsetting to younger readers that aren’t able to grapple with certain aspects of older civilizations (i.e. human sacrifices). I would recommend this to 3rd grade and up.

Out of the Ice: How Climate Change is Revealing the Past, written by Claire Eamer and illustrated by Drew Shannon, is an engaging and informative look at new discoveries that have been revealed thanks to the impact of climate changes in climes where snow and ice have buried remains for centuries or millennia.

It begins with a general overview to very briefly introduce the concept and cause of climate change, the impact on the colder places of the world, and terms such as cryosphere and glacial archaeology. From there it moves into specific, detailed examples of recent discoveries and what they can tell us about human life at their time. Amongst those discoveries are:
In the Yukon — caribou dung and an atlatl from 2400 and 4300 years ago respectively
From Norway artifacts revealing the hunting methods from long ago
From a Canadian glacier, the body of a young man who lived between1720 and 1850
From the Alps, the body of “The Iceman”, perhaps the most famous of such discoveries
From Central Asia, Scythian tombs from 2500 years ago
From the Andes, the bodies of young children sacrificed to the Incan gods
From Siberia, various animals including cave-lion cubs and wooly mammoths

Not all the examples are ancient; one example is the discovery of a mountain climber’s body, found several decades after he’d fallen to his death in 1979.

Each segment includes a sidebar that adds information. Sometimes it’s a second example, sometimes it’s to explain a technology (carbon-dating for example) or a term (mummification) or to explain a particular process. Each segment is also liberally enhanced by photographs and clear illustrations.

The book closes with a section explaining how the cryosphere is disappearing and how fragile what it uncovers can be. Following the text, Eamer has added a brief glossary, a short bibliography for further study, a useful timeline summarizing the discoveries in order, and an index.

My only admittedly tiny complaint is that I wish Eamer had given a sense of the negative aspect of climate change (recognizing obviously this isn’t the book’s focus) so readers aren’t left with the possible thought that “hey, this is good that the climate is warming!” But that’s really a minor issue. Otherwise, Out of the Ice is a concisely informative and often fascinating book of non-fiction for young readers and thus easy to recommend.

Fascinating non-fiction book about the history trapped in the ice. As the ice sheets melt they are revealing prehistoric people, animals, tools and other bits of life from over 10,000 years ago, along with missing hikers and planes from the more recent centuries. The text is detailed, but accurate and this book would do well in history, archaeology and climate change lessons. However, as interesting as the new discoveries are, it's sad that the melting ice & climate change are allowing for these discoveries!

Thank you Netgalley and Kids Can Press for an advanced copy of this book.

This was a very very interesting book. It’s about things that have been found in the melting ice, glaciers, ext as climate change heats our planet. This book covers mammoths, puppies, people, weapons, etc. it’s well laid out and uses a mix of illustrations and real pictures to attract readers. The only bad thing is that It makes climate change sound like a good thing, like a treasure hunt, instead of something bad.

The illustrations are lovely, but the book failed to captivate my interest after more than a few pages. There is quite a bit of information packed into this book.

This non-fiction book gives mixed messages about global warming. We do not want to let the ice sheets and glaciers melt, but as global warming increases, the ice sheets melt and we see what's trapped in them. We learn about the history of the world from the archaeological finds in them. From child sacrifices high up in the Andes, to mammoths killed by humans a long way away from where humans were supposed to be living, as well as mountain climbers, and caribou dung, there ahave been many things found in the meltpools. The frozen sections of our world are telling us a lot about the past, and this book, with great choices of illustration and text, is sharing this with us. What a great book to use in school when learning about archaeology, ice covered environments and global warming.

The first few pages of this book I was enjoying and trying to go in as a kid who wanted to learn some cool facts, and I will have to say there are a lot of cool facts. However, there is a lot of text in this book where I feel it will take a very specific child to read all the way through this and not just skim or look at the pictures. Kids who are really interested in history or science would love this and I would suggest it to any kid who needs a project idea and some good information. But like I said, I fear it will only take a specific type of kid to really enjoy this book. As an adult, I enjoyed it and thought the illustrations were nice and all in all is a good quick read.

A book that almost makes you want global warming to increase, so the ice sheets melt and we see what's trapped in them. From child sacrifices high up in the Andes, to mammoths killed by humans a long way away from where humans were supposed to be living, to recent mountain climbers being reborn from glacial meltpools, the frozen sections of our world are telling us a lot about the past, and this school-friendly book, with great choices of illustration and very good text, is our window to it all. Strongly recommended, especially as I can't think there are many rival volumes on exactly the same subject. Four and a half stars.

ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!

As an archaeology student, I found all the information extremely accurate and interesting. This book teaches children SO much and does so in such an exciting and captivating way. I want a hard copy of this book so badly as this is the type of book I would want my future children to read. It was very well written and I thought the illustrations were so fun and beautiful. Overall, a great learning tool and reminder for all of us to watch our carbon footprint!