Egyptology

Egyptology

Author: Helen Ward, Dugald Steer, and Ian P. Andrew

ISBN: 0763626384

Publisher: Candlewick Press, 2004

Age: 9-12

Grade Level: 5-8

Genre: Non-fiction

Summary: Everything an explorer of Egypt would need or want to know through pictures, flaps, codes, and other pieces.  Based on a journal supposedly written in 1926.

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Personal Thoughts: There are several books of this same style, and all are equally as popular as this one.  There is something about the flaps and pictures that make these books so interesting to kids.  There is a level of interaction that isn’t there with a traditional non-fiction book.