Fun Things to Do with Dead Animals Author:Salima Ikram, Eden Unger Bowditch Life can be a challenge when your mother gives your friends dead mice in your birthday goody bags and offers to mummify your class pet bunny. Amun Ra (yes, like the Egyptian god) shares the story of his endlessly embarrassing and unconventional life with his Mummy, famous Egyptologist, Amalis Marquis. He regales his readers with adventures of cr... more »ossing continents, of narrow escapes with stolen artifacts, of death defying run-ins with scorpions, not to mention the humiliation in the face of his peers, with his mother's graphic stories of ancient rites and severed penises. Along the way, he shares his knowledge about ancient Egypt, the modern Middle East, as well as Europe and North America.
This book is appropriate for readers 9-15 but can be enjoyed by parents and children of more varied ages.« less