Mummies, Pyramids, and Pharaohs: A Book About Ancient Egypt

Mummies, Pyramids, and Pharaohs is an awesome book about ancient Egypt. This book tells how the ancient Egyptians made mummies and the pyramids. It also describes their beliefs and customs. The book tells what the Egyptian people left behind for others to find.
This book is great. The illustrations

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are done so well with precise detail. The information in this book is awesome.
I would use this book to introduce children to the ancient civilizations. I would have the children try to make hieroglyphs and then let another student figure out what they were writing about.

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Gail Gibbons depicts the life of ancient Egyptians and how they lived. It talks about farmers getting water from the Nile River and gives a definition of irrigation, it talks about ho they grow plans and vegetables, and it mentions how they made a living. The content was very informing and

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accurate, along with the colorful pictures to describe it. The book could be used with a science lesson about the chemicals used to mummify pharaohs, irrigation, pyramids, or many other things. The reading level of this book is grades 1-4.

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Always bee fascinated by Egypt and all of it's wonders. I even did a project on that culture when I was in the sixth grade. So I really enjoyed the reminder of how great their lives are.

This book explains what life was like in ancient Egypt. Egypt is in Africa and was rich and very powerful. The book goes on to explain the different positions in ancient Egypt. There are the chief minister’s who handle the taxes and is also the lawyer. Monarchs are the rules of the different

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areas all around. There are also temple priests, craftspeople, farmers, laborers, soldiers and slaves. The people live in sun baked mud houses. It is extremely hot there. Their writing was hieroglyphs or picture writing. They believed in the afterlife and so they mummified people when they died. If they were in a position of power they were placed inside of a pyramid with lots of supplies to take with them into the afterlife. At the end it lists the discoveries the Egyptians made.
This is a nonfiction/informational book.
I really liked the information in this book and also the pictures were interesting to look at. I really enjoyed this book for its information.
I think this would be a good book to teach children about history. I could see this book being really great to teach children about the history of the ancient Egyptians.

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The simple text and detailed illustrations, with brief captions, make this book ideal for elementary students. It would make a great read aloud as part of an introduction into ancient Egyptian life. The book is short and clearly designed for younger readers, yet it holds enough detail to provide a

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thorough look at many important aspects of Egyptian life. Even the mummification process is explored in a clear, step-by-step manner that would be comprehensible to a young child, but provides enough information to understand why pharaohs are mummified and how this is done. The pictures on these pages show the pharaoh at various steps in the mummification process, from start to finish, and are especially useful. The book reminds me of the captions in front of displays at the best museums – thorough but short and to the point.

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Gibbons does an awesome job with explaining mummies, pyramids, and pharaohs and their coming about. She uses descriptive pictures, and labeling to be sure that the book is most definitely kid friendly in every sense of the word.

This is a fun and informative book on ancient Egypt. The beautiful watercolor pictures mixed with the straightforward facts of the textbook create an engaging and entertaining way to learn.

Gail Gibbons writes to tell true facts about the culture of ancient Egyptians. Topics include the mummification process, class systems, roles of the royalty and their highest servants, and religious beliefs.

This book explores ancient Egypt and what it looked like thousands of years ago. You learn about the pharaohs, what the people wore and why, and how mummies were made. The book depicts what the culture of ancient Egypt looked like, from craftsmanship to what religious festivals were like.