Customer Reviews
fun history - By: Ken Stevens, 21 Nov 2008 
This book helped to get my 8 year old son into reading (he's now 10 & reads a lot). It also gave him historical info & backgroundin a fun way. He's read most of the series & also listens to the CDs. Get the books from your local library. Great stuff!
HOT OFF THE PRESS - APRIL 2007 - REPRINTED EDITION with a NEW COVER! - By: Amazon Reviewer, 17 Apr 2007 
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`The Awesome Egyptians gives you some awful information about phabulous Pharaohs & poverty-stricken peasants - who lived an awesome 5000 years ago!
Want to know:-
which king had the worst blackheads?
why some kings had to wear false beards?
why the peasants were revolting?
Read on to find some foul facts about death & decay, revolting recipes for 3000-year-old sweets, how to make a mean mummy, & some awful Egyptian arithmetic.
History with the nasty bits left in!
History has never been so horrible!'
A witty, colourful cover opens to 140 pages, split over 12 chapters:-
Egyptian fact-file
Awesome Egyptian events
Phascinating Pharaohs
The power of the pyramids
The pyramids
The magic of the mummies
The curse of the mummy's tomb
Gruesome grave robbers
The remarkable river
A gallery of gods
Awesome troublesome Egyptians
Live like an Egyptian
with an introduction & an epilogue.
Written with the typical Deary humour, aided by Peter Hepplewhite -in a variety of fonts, & superb illustrations/cartoons throughout, from Martin Brown.
