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4th out of 16 books
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Mummies, Pyramids, and Pharaohs: A Book about Ancient Egypt
by
Gail Gibbons
Provides an overview of life in ancient Egypt, describing the people, daily activities, beliefs and customs, and what has been learned from artifacts left behind.
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
June 1st 2004
by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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This is a good book for introducing the concept of Ancient Egypt to young children. Perfect for age 3 and up. It doesn't have any photographs, but every page has a large illustration that is instructive and related to the narrative. There were a few things that I didn't think were exactly right in the narrative and the depictions based on other books we've read, but I expect that's because ancient cultures have some room for interpretation. Overall, this is the most accessible and best book on A...more
Published: 2004, Little, Brown Young Readers
Age: 4-8
Everything you want to know about ancient Egypt in a fun, easy to read picture book. Not too wordy, with the pictures labeled with the phonics pronunciations. Children can choose to read the labels, just the text, or both. The pictures do a great job visualizing the information in the text. Each page has a different colorful border around it. The last page has 15 short paragraphs with pictures of ancient Egyptian discoveries that are too intere...more
Age: 4-8
Everything you want to know about ancient Egypt in a fun, easy to read picture book. Not too wordy, with the pictures labeled with the phonics pronunciations. Children can choose to read the labels, just the text, or both. The pictures do a great job visualizing the information in the text. Each page has a different colorful border around it. The last page has 15 short paragraphs with pictures of ancient Egyptian discoveries that are too intere...more
This review isn't very fair because I just love everything that Gail Gibbons does. As per usual, the illustrations are very pretty and the text is nicely informative. This book is a good introduction to Ancient Egypt although it would not be very helpful for someone writing a report. I like that she goes into economic and religious details as well as differentiating between the customs of the royalty and the poor people.
Good overview of Egyptian customs and beliefs. Most pages have only a small amount of text, making the book perfect for early elementary readers.
This is an introduction to ancient Egypt and skims the surface of information about mummies and Egyptian religion/mythology.
A good companion for the younger one, while the older one learns about Egypt.
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Gail Gibson always a winner. good maps and illustrations
This book was ok. I provided some information, well a lot of information, but it was a bit more like a story than I expected. I also felt as if some of the information was really just opinions. Well that might be my opinion as well. I just hate that all of Ancient Egyption history is lost so a lot of it is just guesses. This is a good research book for Children's Elementary school standards.
This was one of our most favorite books for Egypt. An excellent broad overview for the elementary years. After reading lots of other books about Egypt, this being one of the last, I said "Finally, the book I wanted to use all along." We'll definitely use this again.
The pictures are all illustrations so if you want actual pictures you'll need a different book.
The pictures are all illustrations so if you want actual pictures you'll need a different book.
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