Bill and Pete Go Down the Nile

9 best books like Bill and Pete Go Down the Nile (Tomie dePaola): How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, Archaeologists Dig for Clues, The Egyptian Cinderella, Some Bugs, Jabari Jumps, Mummies Made in Egypt, The First Dog, Gilgamesh the King, Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World

Author	Marjorie Priceman
ISBN	0679880836

Illus. in full color. An apple pie is easy to make...if the market is open. But if the market is closed, the world becomes your grocery store. This deliciously silly recipe for apple pie takes readers around the globe to gather ingredients. First hop a steamboat to Italy for the finest semolina wheat....

Archaeologists Dig for Clues

Author	Kate Duke
ISBN	0064451755

This book provides an engaging and informative look at how archaeologists work, as a few schoolchildren work with an archaeologist named Sofie to look for artifacts in the remains of an Archaic-era settlement.

I like how this book makes archaeology look exciting, but also focuses on the scientific...

The Egyptian Cinderella

Author	Shirley Climo
ISBN	0064432793

"Climo has woven this ancient tale, a mixture of fact and myth, with clarity and eloquence. The beauty of the language is set off to perfection by Heller's arresting illustrations. A stunning combination of fluent prose and exquisitely wrought illustrations that makes] a winner for story hours, as...

Some Bugs

Author	Angela DiTerlizzi
ISBN	1442458801

Get the buzz on bugs in this picture book from Angela DiTerlizzi!

Grab your magnifying glass!
Find your field guide!
And come hop, hide, swim, and glide
through this buggy backyard world!

Featuring insects including butterflies and moths, crickets and cicadas, bumblebees...

Jabari Jumps

Author	Gaia Cornwall
ISBN	0763678384

Working up the courage to take a big, important leap is hard, but Jabari is almost absolutely ready to make a giant splash.

Jabari is definitely ready to jump off the diving board. He's finished his swimming lessons and passed his swim test, and he's a great jumper, so he's not scared at all. "Looks...

Mummies Made in Egypt

Author	Aliki
ISBN	0064460118

Mummies Made in Egypt by Aliki Brandenberg describes and illustrates the techniques and reasons for the use of mummification in ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptians believed that when someone died they would live in their tombs on earth but travel to live with gods and goddesses in another world.

The...

The First Dog

Author	Jan Brett
ISBN	0152019677

Story: 4 stars
Art: 3 stars

An imagined tale of how the wolf became domesticated into the modern dog. This picture book is not based on fact. Other than his outfit, "Kip the cave boy" looks far too modern for an early human. This very Caucasian-looking boy is scrubbed clean with a recent haircut....

Gilgamesh the King

Author	Ludmila Zeman
ISBN	0887764371

Gilgamesh, half-god and half-man, in his loneliness and isolation becomes a cruel tyrant over the citizens of Uruk. To impress them forever he orders a great wall to be built, driving his people to exhaustion and despair so that they cry to the Sun God for help. In answer, another kind of man, Enkidu, is...

Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Author

James Rumford

To a child, the future is a magnificent dream. For Jean-Francois Champollion, the dream was to sail up the Nile in Egypt and uncover the secrets of the past. In 1802, when Champollion was eleven years old, he vowed to be the first person to read Egypt's ancient hieroglyphs. He faced great challenges over...