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kamilahlove's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death
Minor: Animal death
kelleemoye's review against another edition
4.0
Although ultimately this book is a biography of King Tut, it also is a history book of Egypt. Not much is known about the child pharoah that a small amount of the book is actually about him. More is about his father and other aspects of Egyptian history.
I was a big fan on how the book was set up. There are chapters that are a bit narrative and within the chapters there are extra informative sidebars to add to the story being told. I will definitely get more books from the "Big Head Biography" series in the future. I think they make history and biographies so accessible to children.
This book piggie backed nicely with [b:Athena's Son|13247385|Athena's Son|Jeryl Schoenbeck|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1347876211s/13247385.jpg|18447955] which I read a week ago and would be a great nonfiction connection with it, the Kane Chronicles, Aphrodite the Diva, and any other book with Egyptian mythology.
I was a big fan on how the book was set up. There are chapters that are a bit narrative and within the chapters there are extra informative sidebars to add to the story being told. I will definitely get more books from the "Big Head Biography" series in the future. I think they make history and biographies so accessible to children.
This book piggie backed nicely with [b:Athena's Son|13247385|Athena's Son|Jeryl Schoenbeck|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1347876211s/13247385.jpg|18447955] which I read a week ago and would be a great nonfiction connection with it, the Kane Chronicles, Aphrodite the Diva, and any other book with Egyptian mythology.
ibeesh's review against another edition
4.0
A really interesting book about the ancient Egypt especially about king Tut who died before he was twenty.
An easy to read book which will teach you a lot about king Tut and ancient Egypt.
An easy to read book which will teach you a lot about king Tut and ancient Egypt.
crowmaster's review against another edition
3.0
Childhood classic. A great childhood introduction to histories famous pharaoh.
ricksilva's review against another edition
3.0
The Kiddo brought this one home from the school library as part of an assignment to read biographies.
This was a good overview of Ancient Egyptian history, the culture around the burial of Pharaohs, and the search for Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter.
This is a lot to cover in a relatively small book, so there were places where I would have liked to learn more, but as a childrens' introduction it did a reasonable job of keeping on pace and presenting a good selection of facts. The writing was a bit dry, in spite of attempts to keep it interested. The Kiddo generally enjoyed the book, but tuned out during some of the parts not directly involved with mummies, which was his original source of interest.
True Kelley's simple pen illustrations are a nice accompaniment to the text, and were helpful in a number of places at providing just the right visual at the right time.
This was a good overview of Ancient Egyptian history, the culture around the burial of Pharaohs, and the search for Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter.
This is a lot to cover in a relatively small book, so there were places where I would have liked to learn more, but as a childrens' introduction it did a reasonable job of keeping on pace and presenting a good selection of facts. The writing was a bit dry, in spite of attempts to keep it interested. The Kiddo generally enjoyed the book, but tuned out during some of the parts not directly involved with mummies, which was his original source of interest.
True Kelley's simple pen illustrations are a nice accompaniment to the text, and were helpful in a number of places at providing just the right visual at the right time.
missylynne's review against another edition
3.0
Good enough for the younger readers but I felt that they left out information that the younger set should know.
1. Tut married his sister. They completely left out mentioning that she was his sister. Children should know that the royals tended to marry within the family to keep the line from going to outsiders though there were cases where they married foreigners or nobility.
2. The main gods were family and intermarried and even killed one another in jealousy, etc.
3. The fetuses found in Tut's tomb were more then likely those if his and his wife. Why else would you bury babies with him? I doubt a stranger's daughters would have ended up in his tomb.
1. Tut married his sister. They completely left out mentioning that she was his sister. Children should know that the royals tended to marry within the family to keep the line from going to outsiders though there were cases where they married foreigners or nobility.
2. The main gods were family and intermarried and even killed one another in jealousy, etc.
3. The fetuses found in Tut's tomb were more then likely those if his and his wife. Why else would you bury babies with him? I doubt a stranger's daughters would have ended up in his tomb.
theresidentbookworm's review against another edition
1.0
Oh, Who Was series, don't you ever learn? This was yet another risk that didn't pay off. In fact, ancient Egypt is even riskier than Shakespeare. We have a few sources about Shakespeare. Most of the things we know about King Tut are mostly guesses. *sighs* It's sad because I really wanted to love this, but the fact is that the author is still trying to convince the reader what's here is set in stone when it's really not. Plus, without all the scandals and such of Egypt at that time, this feels sadly incomplete. Keep on looking!
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