Mummies Made in Egypt

I got this book as a gift when I was a kid, and absolutely loved it. Aliki's illustrations are clean and effective, and it's a fun history book for elementary school kids.

This book made it fun and interesting to learn the facts about making mummies. It provided interesting pictures of the events that take place during the mummification, and little passages or notes about them. I found this book to be very educational and also fun at the same time.

I thought that this was a pretty good summary of mummification. It hit on a little bit of the history and changes of it, the aspects of the burial, a little bit about why they did mummification, all without getting too long or getting too involved in the explanation.

Mummies gives graphic detailing about mummification and how the process was done thousands of years ago. Egyptians believed that when a person died they went on to another life, so their bodies were preserved and they were buried with food to take on to the next life. The tombs were marked with heiroglyphics and elaborately decorated.

As a girl, I was very intrigued by Egypt and the way of the Egyptians thousands of years ago. I had one book in particular about a young lady who was a slave in Egypt in the times of Pharaohs, so I thought that this book would be especially interesting.

As a classroom extension, I would have the students draw a picture of the part of the book they liked the best and write one descriptive sentence about that show more picture. show less

Provides students between the ages of 9-12 information on mummies made in the past. Pictures are great, and the text is very interesting. Mummies are something that most students are very interested in, and this book provides a lower level text to give students an understanding of mummification, symbols, and reasoning.

This book was about mummies and the steps that are taken when a person of importance would die in ancient egypt. This book taught me a lot of things that I never even knew about mummies such as the multiple stages of pre-burial wrapping that they do to the bodies, and also the reasons behind such unique burial traditions.

A Reading Rainbow book pertaining to the preservation of "Mummies". An excellent realistic insight to the ritual of embalming a corpse for Egyptian burial.