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Book Note
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS
| Terry Deary,The Awful Egyptians, Scholastic, London, 2006. pp. 128. £4.99 paper.
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| Want to know why people worshipped a dung beetle? Or which phunny pharaoh married her own grandfather? This book is full of pathetic puns, humorous cartoons and stacks of information. Vastly superior to its predecessor the Awesome Egyptians, Terry Deary has dug up lots more detailed information about the Ancients Egyptians, their gods, their Pharaohs, mummies and what it would have been like to live in the ancient Egyptian empire. |
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Unlike conventional history books, Terry Deary's book seeks to put you right inside that time in history and give you the perspective of an Egyptian slave, a criminal or a doctor's patient with information as well as a quick joke and the occasional reference to a history teacher. It isn't all fun and games though. Awful Egyptians also takes you the battlefield, gruesome torture chambers and the afterlife. |
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Despite these last references, it's impossible to take this book seriously what with the wide-eyed vacant expression on the faces of the bare-chested drawings by Martin Brown, to the front cover with a smiling Pharaoh saying 'Mummy's home' and pointing to a pyramid. |
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With the inclusion of the occasional quiz and highly historical short story, this book will have you chuckling, chortling, snorting, coughing and sighing all at the same time, while still containing some very useful facts to test your friends with. And a thumbs up from me. |
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