Mummies: Dried, Tanned,Sealed, Drained, Frozen, Embalmed,
Stuffed, Wrapped, and Smoked… and We’re
Dead Serious By Christopher
Sloan National Geographic 2010
Eww, Gross!
And that is precisely the point. This book grabs the reader
with vivid photos of a delightfully macabre nature. Eleven ways to mummify
people are explored in this volume as the book provides details of famous
mummies. The mummies discussed in the book are from all over the world, and
they span different time periods.
Accidential mummies are also covered in this book, and it is
interesting to juxtapose the natural and man made process that create mummies.
Because of the tremendous diversity of mummies that are covered, the reader is
sure to find types of mummies and mummification processes that were previously unfamiliar.
In the back, there is a useful timeline of mummies through
the ages and a map of the world that displays the locations and dates for
mummies.
Once again, I must emphasize that this book is quite gross,
yet it is very informative – maybe just the thing to pull in some of your
reluctant readers.
Upper elementary only, and please consider your audience in
any case. Some of the photos are quite scary looking indeed.
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