Pharaoh's Egypt (Fly on the Wall) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847806236 ISBN 13: 9781847806239

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2015

Synopsis

Be a fly on the wall in the time of the ancient Egyptians. See how the mummy-makers perform their grisly work, sail down the Nile with Huya the scribe, and creep into the tombs with robbers as they steal jewels by eerie torchlight. These pages are packed full of up-to-date information about the world of the Pharaohs from the latest archaeological discoveries. With spilled potions, squashed insects and flower petals, this book shows you ancient Egypt as it really happened!

About this title

About the Author:

MICK MANNING and BRITA GRANSTRÖM have developed a unique approach to picture information books over the last 21 years. Sharing the illustration between them and mixing words and pictures in inventive ways, they have won many awards, including the Smarties Silver Award, and are five-times winners of the English Association Award. Mick fell in love with wildlife on primary school nature walks many years ago, and has an MA in Natural History Illustration from the Royal College of Art. Brita grew up on a farm, and has an MFA from Konstfack in Stockholm. They spend a lot of their time having both Swedish and British Wild Adventures with their four children. Their other books for Frances Lincoln include: The Beatles, Charles Dickens, Scenes from an Extraordinary Life, What Mr Darwin Saw, Tail-End Charlie, Taff in the WAAF; The Secrets of Stonehenge, Woolly Mammoth;and the Fly on the Wall series: Roman Fort, Viking Longship, Pharoah's Egypt, Greek Hero.

MICK MANNING and BRITA GRANSTRÖM have developed a unique approach to picture information books over the last 21 years. Sharing the illustration between them and mixing words and pictures in inventive ways, they have won many awards, including the Smarties Silver Award, and are five-times winners of the English Association Award. Mick fell in love with wildlife on primary school nature walks many years ago, and has an MA in Natural History Illustration from the Royal College of Art. Brita grew up on a farm, and has an MFA from Konstfack in Stockholm. They spend a lot of their time having both Swedish and British Wild Adventures with their four children. Their other books for Frances Lincoln include: The Beatles; Charles Dickens, Scenes from an Extraordinary Life; What Mr Darwin Saw; Tail-End Charlie; Taff in the WAAF; The Secrets of Stonehenge; Woolly Mammoth; and the Fly on the Wall series: Roman Fort, Viking Longship; Pharoah's Egypt; Greek Hero.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 2-4-In this introduction to ancient Egyptian culture, Manning keeps the text brief, basic, and entertaining while allowing full play to Granström's artistic embodiments of the subject at hand. Two-page chapters feature the fictional narrative of a scribe named Huya, whose activities readers follow throughout the book. The chapters consist of a short main paragraph that gives a broad overview of the topic; a series of captionlike sentences printed across the bottoms of the pages that give additional information; and captions and dialogue that curve and curl around and along the objects and people to which they refer. Topics include the role of a scribe, the temple, priests and gods, the Nile, the mummy-makers, and other aspects of life during the reign of Ramesses the Great. Granström's characters are slightly pudgy and rounded, depicted-like the settings-with watercolor washes and simple lines. The main paragraphs have been placed on a representation of a rough-edged piece of papyrus. Both text and art employ humor where appropriate: a stoneworker drops a mallet on his foot; Huya gets sick to his stomach at the embalmer's workshop. More information is included in Richard Platt's Egyptian Diary (Candlewick, 2005), but it is for an older audience. Light in tone, perfect both for browsing or reading in its entirety, Pharaoh's Egypt succeeds in bringing an immensely complex subject into focus for early readers.-Coop Renner, Hillside Elementary, El Paso, TX
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About this edition

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1847806236
• ISBN 13: 9781847806239
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Manning Mick, Granstrom Brita