Pharoahs & Mummies

by Anita Ganeri

Travel back in time to ancient Egypt with Ladybird Explorers Plus Pharaohs & Mummies. Enter King Tutankhamun's tomb, read and write hieroglyphs, and feel a piece of real papyrus.

Special see-through acetate pages, wheels, tabs, flaps, and windows make this exciting book truly interactive.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

24 pages, Hardcover & Spiral Bound

Published May 1, 1996

About the author

Anita Ganeri is a highly experienced author of children’s information books, specialising in religion, India/Asia, multiculturalism, geography, biography and natural history. She became a freelance writer after working at Walker Books (as foreign rights manager) and Usborne Publishing (as an editor). Since then, she has written over 300 titles, including the best-selling Horrible Geography series for Scholastic. The series won the Geographical Association Silver Award in 1999 and was cited as being ‘an innovation that all geographers will applaud’. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society where she conducts most of her research for the books.

Reviews

[Petra plants are dying from the el nino drought · Rating 4 out of 5]

As with all Dorling Kindersley books, this one is beautifully illustrated and full of information. For the inevitable school project, this book can't be beaten.