Lift The Lid On Mummies [Hardcover]

Jacqueline Dineen (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up | Series: Lift the Lid

Embalm Your Own Mummy! Discover Ancient Burial Rituals! Includes Body Organs, Shroud, and Canopic Jars! This exploration kit combines lessons in science, archaeology, and anthropology with the experience of creating your very own mummy! The kit includes a mummy figurine, major internal organs with canopic jars for storing them, gauze for wrapping, and cardboard press-out amulets to protect the spirit as it travels to the afterlife and more!

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Open the mummy-shaped box.... Smell the must of the tomb.... Reveal the secrets within.... Included among these secrets are a 24-page booklet all about real-life mummies and the people who study them, a 10-inch plastic-model body, and four carved heads of gods to protect the Canopic jars where you'll store the plastic organs found inside the body--both lungs in a single jar, please! Find the hidden drawer containing the gauze wrappings, headdress, scarabs, and a cardboard cat you can mummify to accompany your Pharaoh in the afterlife. Wrap your mummy from head to toe, place lucky amulets in the gauze, and bury it in the back yard (soak the gauze in brine first for a more realistic mummy experience). Don't forget to seal the tomb with your "Curse of the Mummy" sticker ... and to warn your parents, so when they rent the expensive tiller to dig up the garden, they don't break the blades on your ultracool mummy.

This kit introduces curious kids to the mummies of many different cultures, such as those of ancient Egypt and South America, and to all the types of mummies, including shrunken heads, bog mummies, and ice mummies. Slightly creepy good fun.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Hardcover: 24 pages
• Publisher: Running Press Kids; Book and Access edition (February 24, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762402083
• ISBN-13: 978-0762402083
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.9 x 2.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #80,112 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #27 in Books > Children's Books > History > Ancient
  • #72 in Books > Children's Books > Science, Nature & How It Works > Social Science

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best kits ever, June 27, 2002

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Eva (Grantsville, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lift The Lid On Mummies (Hardcover)

I bought this for my 9-year-old nephew. He was having problems in school, and I struggled to find a present that would help him see that learning is fun. I was amazed at the hit this was! He knows now that learning isn't all boring, and all my other neices and nephews were amazed by this kit. Even us adults found ourselves playing with the kids and learning about mummies...the kit even has guts for you to "maintain"! What a buy!

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Fun!, December 10, 2000

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B. Bennette "bmbennette" (Boston (Weymouth) MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lift The Lid On Mummies (Hardcover)

I bought this for a nine-year-old and we both enjoyed it thoroughly. It "unwraps" the mystery of mummies which was fun and educational for both of us! Most kids become fascinated by mummies and this gives them a broader perspective, making the whole thing clearer. I highly recommend this as a great gift item.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful. Very entertaining and full of usefull info., May 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Lift The Lid On Mummies (Hardcover)

This book was very enjoyable for me to read and I found plenty of useful information I was able to use on my school project. The mummy was so much fun to make and admire. This is such a good book, I can't imagine not reading. I've learned so many things about mummies that I never even thought about before.