#27 Voices of Ancient Egypt

Voices of Ancient Egypt
Author: Kay Winters
Illustrator: Barry Moser
National Geographic Childbooks, 2003
32 Pages

Multicultural

I chose this book because I thought that it would be interesting to look at what people did for a living in another part of the world, such as Egypt.
This is actually a poetry book that tells individual stories, depicting different jobs in Egypt. Each job and everything involved in it is described by a different worker. It really paints a broader picture of how each job was a contribution to the way this society ran.
Each poem has a large and colorful illustration. It looks as if pen and watercolor were mainly used.
I would show this book to first-grade and above. These students should be getting the idea of different civilizations and how they worked.
This book would be great to introduce while teaching simple economy. I would take a little time out to show the students how people in the world earn money or contribute to society.