Jean Auel's Children of the Earth Series (The Clan of the Cave Bear, etc.)

We need an edit feature. I meant - I can't wait for more...

There was 12 years between The Plains of Passage and The Shelters of Stone. She spends a lot of time researching and writing each book. She lives in Oregon with her husband Ray. Everything I have read says she is currently researching her sixth book. That means she is not even writing it yet. Boo Hoo. I found some facts you might enjoy! Jean Auel's books have sold 34 million copies worldwide. Jean Auel's books are available in over 20 languages. Jean Auel is currently writing the sixth Earth's Children book. According to a 2/18/02 Publishers Weekly article, The Mammoth Hunters was the first novel to "achieve a first printing of more than a million copies" when it was published in 1985. After the movie version of The Clan of the Cave Bear was released in the 1980s, Auel "[sued] the production company" reported Publishers Weekly in a 2/18/02 article.

Jean Auel spent years researching early man's way of life and beliefs, the way the earth was then, and so forth. These books are Prehistoric Fiction and once you get hooked on them, you will find others, though none as good as Jean Auel's, and you will devour them all! The main character is Ayla. She is found by a clan of cave people as a small "ugly" child. When you read the story you will realize that it is the cave people who are ugly, but they have no clue, they think she is. Anyhow, she is not like them and does not fit in well with their ways but she is adopted by Creb, the powerful medicine man, who goes about teaching her, and she becomes a healer but she continues to break the rules . . . the second book is my favorite, but you should start with the first and go in order, I could talk all day, but don't want to give it away! Their way of life is facinating!