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Eyewitness Workbooks: Ancient Egypt (DK Eyewitness Books)

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I bought a number of workbooks from several series for my children to work with over the summer. DK workbooks (which were inferior in every way and I returned all 4), the Complete Book series, the Scholastic Success series (which are really intended for in-school supplementation but were okay for use over the summer), and the Spectrum series. The Spectrum and Complete Book Of series were superior in every way to the other workbooks and I will order from them again next summer.

I bought this book to supplement the summer curriculum for my children, thinking Egypt would be a fun topic for them to study. This book is INFORMATIONAL OVERLOAD! In an attempt to follow the DK factoid style, this book has crammed so much information into its 20 or so pages that my eyes started to water. The workbook questions did not require analysis or writing complete sentences. Instead, the questions were usually regurgitative: When was King Tut pharoah? (go to the spinner, look up the answer, regurgitate). For me personally, questions like "Your crops are failing, so you pray to _____" were disturbing. I returned it to Amazon, and we'll check out real books from the library to learn about Egypt.