Briefly discusses the effects of the Great Ice Age on the earth's land formations, vegetation, and animals.

In this third of the the Earth's children novels, Ayla and Jondalar meet the Manutoi, the mammoth hunters, and when she is drawn to another man Jondalar becomes jealous. It is not until the great mammoth hunt, when Ayla's life is in danger, that a fateful decision is made.

When Scrat creates a meteor shower that threatens the Earth, the animals must band together to find a way to keep one giant meteor from destroying the world.

Ayla shares a lonely valley with a herd of steppe ponies, harnesses their power, and discovers speech and love with Jondalar, a member of her own race.

A band of creatures fleeing the coming frost tries to reunite a human baby with its tribe.

When global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age, tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York City and the entire Northern Hemisphere begns to freeze solid. Now, climatologist Jack Hall, his son Sam, and a small band of survivors must ride out the growing superstorm and stay alive in the face of an enemy more powerful and relentless than anything anyone has ever encountered: Mother Nature.