Stories from Ancient Egypt by Joyce A. Tyldesley (PDF)

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Some of the most interesting and entertaining myths and legends from Ancient Egypt are given a lively re-telling by Joyce Tyldesley. These include stories about the gods, such as The Creation of the World, Hathor and the Red Beer, and the myths about Osiris, Isis and Horus. Fairy stories and incredible adventures are represented by The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor, The Adventures of Sinuhe and The Prince, the Dog, the Snake and the Crocodile, while good and bad behaviour are to be found in Three Magical Stories and The Story of Truth and Falsehood. King Ramesses II himself tells us about The Battle of Kadesh. The book is illustrated with imaginative and amusing line-drawings by Julian Heath, and each of the stories has a question and answer section for budding young Egyptologists. STORIES FROM ANCIENT EGYPT is aimed at children between the ages of 7-11, but this book is an entertaining and informative introduction to the literature of Ancient Egypt for all ages. It is a new edition of a title previously published by Rutherford PressTable of ContentsAbout this Book About Egypt About Hieroglyphs The Stories: 1. The Creation of the World 2. Hathor and the Red Beer 3. The Story of Isis and Osiris 4. The Quarrel between Horus and Seth 5. Three Magical Stories 6. The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor 7. The Adventures of Sinuhe 8. The Prince, the Dog, the Snake and the Crocodile 9. The Story of Truth and Falsehood 10. The Battle of Kadesh People and Places What do You Think? – Answers

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: About the Author Julian Heath is an author and freelance archaeological illustrator based in Liverpool. He has a BA and an MA in Archaeology from Liverpool University, where he has lectured on archaeological illustration and the prehistoric world. His publications include Warfare in Prehistoric Britain (2009), Life in Copper Age Britain (2011), and Before Farming (2013). He illustrated Stories from Ancient Egypt and the updated version of the British Museum’s Dictionary of Ancient Egypt.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐The stories in this book came from ancient Egypt! I was a little disappointed that it didn’t have the story of the Eye of Horus, because I have explained that to my kids before. At the end of each story, the author has a brief explanation, and a few questions about the story.This is a nice little book for kids to know a little more about ancient Egypt, and how they viewed life.Some of these stories will seem very familiar to modern times. It’s amazing how long they have been around!

⭐I got this book to read to my sons for our homeschooling unit on ancient Egypt, and it was a hit. While it’s not great literature (rich, subtle language and such), the author has made these stories very accessible for kids. If you’d like more highbow stories from ancient Egypt, I’d recommend Tales of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green. These stores are more sophisticated and complex, but Tyldesley’s versions got bigger laughs from my boys, though they enjoyed both.It was important to me to have this book as a resource so I could teach my children about the legends of ancient Egypt, and not just facts. This book did a great job of simplifying some of the central fables of that time.

⭐great read

⭐Fantastic stories! Many of ancient Egypt’s mythological stories written for children. The stories are written in a manner children will enjoy, illustrations are fabulous. The explainations from the author add to the richness of the stories.Young children will enjoy this book.

⭐My class loved these stories. We used the story of Sinuhe as a story with a historical setting for lots of class work. We then enjoyed reading lots of the different stories as a class reader during our Egypt topic. It doesn’t really have many illustrations and is quite text-based so was more useful to read to the children than for them to read it themselves. Highly recommended.

⭐Lovely book

⭐Brilliant for teachers with little background knowledge of the myths and legends plus can change stories to meet childrens’ need when teaching as there are some references to alcoholism in it-even though it its being truthful! 🙂 thankyou

⭐A very good book for my year 5 class. I will be using this book for teaching Ancient Egyptian Myths.

⭐Bought to teach with a class of Y3 children but myths are too complex for them. Would be better for older children.

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