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Ms. Frizzle's Adventures: Ancient Egypt

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This book is great! I got this book when I was 4 3/4 and I am now 13 1/2 years old and it's still wonderful!!! It shows wonderful examples of hieroglyphs and demotic writing!!! It shows you detailed pictures of an Egyptian market, scribes house, and tells you how mummys were made!!! After reading I ( to my mom's extreme annoyance) turned our basement in to an Egyptian town, and you can imangine what I went as that Halloween!!

This new adventure with the loving teacher Ms. Frizzle will enchant kids of all ages. Splendidly illustrated with accurate details, this book is a delight to read: funny, informative, colorful, clear and comprehensive. An excellent, highly recommended book for children ages 8 to 12.

My 4 yr old finds The Magic School Bus TV show very entertaining. Egyptology is his newest passion & Ms. Frizzle makes it fun & entertaining. The pics are great & very usefull for "I Spy".

I love the magic school bus and these large format, hard cover versions are even more fun. My daughter loves this.

Doing a unit on Ancient Egypt this Summer, and was THRILLED to see this book at the library. I wish they had made a video too! My kids love it. Ms. Frizzle is her usual self sans the class. She's taking a vacation in Egypt during Summer break but just can't let go of being a teacher. She jumps out of the plane on the way there and the other passengers become her students. They go back in time thanks to Ms. Frizz's Time Travel Watch. Great illustrations, captions. Very historically faithful and fun.

This book really disappointed my child and myself. I am not sure what age of the intended audience for this book was but the sentences were on the advanced level of an easy reader. I expect more from a Magic School Bus book.

Magic School Bus books go into a very appropriate depth for a child. This book did not. It also painted a rosy picture of life in Ancient Egypt. I realize a kids book shouldn't be depressing but it shouldn't make it seem like the Ancient Egyptians had an easy life. The flooding of the Nile each year wasn't even mentioned. This flooding cycle had a great affect on the daily life of the Ancient Egyptians.

All in all, if you would like a book on Ancient Egypt that shows your child a realistic portrayal of Ancient Egyptian life, this is NOT the book for you. This is a fictional story book.

This is a helpful, instructive, and entertaining book that shows ancient Egypt scenes justaposed with a modern day tour. Plenty of research went into this book, but it is not in-your-face brainy. It will make them smarter while they have fun. Little people like it, too - have older brothers and sisters read it to them.

My daughter and I have loved Magic School Bus videos and books for many years. We saw the Ms. Frizzle's Adventure's Ancient China and decided we wanted to see more of the Adventure books. I ordered the books including this one, Ms. Frizzle's Adventures: Ancient Egypt. My daughter excitedly opened the Ancient Egypt book and started looking through it. She came upon the page that says: "Building Pyramids made jobs for thousands of people." My daughter who watched the movie Prince of Egypt asked me why they would say that the people, the Jews, who were slaves when they worked on the pyramids, be talked of as employees.

I also checked the same page and found another statement that says "People often think the pyramids were made by slaves, but that isn't true." Hasn't the writer of this book seen the movie the Prince of Egypt, The Ten Commandments, or any of the other movies about that period of time?

The book goes on to say "Pyramid builders were paid in bread and beer, just like other workers." I have to say that I am appalled to even think people could live on bread and beer anyway. From what I learned of the times most of the "workers" were starving and beaten if they didn't work fast and efficiently enough for their overseers expectations.

I find this book another of those books that are written to help rewrite history and white wash the truth. Shame on the Scholastic Press for allowing this rewrite and for Joanna Cole for writing such untruths! The story of Passover for the Jews is a time of the retelling of how the enslaved Jews were able to leave the Egyptian overlords behind and find their way to a new life.

It seems to me that if a lie can be started in a children's book maybe then the parents of the children and the children themselves won't question the lie. Why is it that there are people willing to say that the Jews were not slaves in Egypt, is the next thing they will say is that Hitler didn't kill any Jews in its concentration camps?

It seems that rewriting history is a new art form and covering over horrible situations in history isn't going to educate others so that hopefully we won't allow such things to happen again. Our world needs people to know the truth, even kids. Why should writers, including the writers and publishers of Scholastic feel that the truth is something to cover over and make clean. History isn't always neat and tidy and it shouldn't be changed just because it is a children's book. If that is why it was done, I think the writer and the publisher really need to do some soul searching!
Ms. Frizzle's Adventures: Ancient Egypt

My children absolutely love the Magic School Bus Adventures. Now, combining Ms. Frizzle with one of their favorite times in history is a magical success! My children learned about Ancient Egypt in the exciting, fun and descriptive way only Ms. Frizzle could portray. I'm so glad Ms. Frizzle "took chances and got messy" with social studies! Hooray!

My daughter loves this book. The information is packed tightly into the book, much as in the Magic School bus books. The one major problem that really upsets my daughter is that in one picture the Sphinx does not have a beard. Really, this upsets her a great deal. There is a scene when Ms Frizzle opens an airplane door and jumps out, which I do feel is not good to put in a kids book. It gives them ideas, in my opinion.

Other than that, the book has good information in it.