IF WALLS COULD TALK
"A painting is worth a thousand words"
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Let your mind engage in an adventure in Ancient Egypt. As The Eyes and Ears of Pharaoh investigates the Tomb robberies in the Valley of the Kings. Hori and Meryet show their metal, as they investigate the dark tomb. Each word paints a word picture of everyday life of the peasant Egyptians to the royal halls of power, you can almost smell the bread baking, the duck stew bubbling and summering wafting through the air and taste sweet fig cakes, just freshly baked. Ride on the great Nile on a pleasure barge, and along the river edge see people doing their daily tasks. You can almost hear the noise of the market place, the bawling of cattle, the sound of people speaking in many tongues, you and smell freshly washed pores, perfumed, oiled leather, hot rock and dust, and here the sound of metal weapong clanking, children running around and boys playing mock battles with homemade swords, and the fishermen singing their stories of travel as they fish and mend torn nets. You see the bristle of the masts of foreign ships, and fishing boats at the dock with the watchful eye of the Medjay and his trained Baboon. Watching for thieves and contraband. Visit a feast and attend a hunting party, and have a close call with a water cow. And at the end of the book, their are hands-on-activites for you to try.
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Drawings of the important characters in the book. Perhaps in a portrait setting, i.e., the scribe that writes love letters, the little old lady that loved her monkey so much she bought a slave boy to care for it. A Medjay policeman. The ship captain, a court official, the Goose Girl, the Weaving girl, etc.
About the Author
JoAnn Brannon Hunt also known to friends and relatives as "Jody" as been in education for 45 years. She is a vocational archaeologist and has taught ancient cultures and archaeology at "Kids College" and Gate programs, in Northern and Southern California. She is the author of "Small Fry Originals" a thematic supplement for Early Childhood Educators. This is her first young readers novel. She has done extensive world traveling to do research. Many of her ideas for "If Walls Could Talk" are a result of her travels and research, in Egypt. SheI loves to bring stories to life with hands-on activities. She graduated from The Children's Institute of Literature, and has an AA degree in Early Childhood Education and minor in Anthropology. She recently retired from education, to devote moe time to writing. Although she does volunteer at the Caldwell, Idaho Library as an after school book club leader for homeschool students. She lives in Caldwell Idaho with her husband, Darrel, their daughter, Alexis, her elderly in-laws, and their Bombay Cat, Abby and Border Collie Robbie.