Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs
10 best books like Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs (James Rumford): The Golden Goblet, Pyramid, A Big Mooncake for Little Star, The Egyptian Cinderella, The Curious Garden, A Medieval Feast, Of Numbers and Stars: The Story of Hypatia, Mummies Made in Egypt, Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf, Marguerite Makes a Book
| Author | Eloise Jarvis McGraw |
I really liked this book when I was 11, and I really liked this book twenty-one years later. Somehow Eloise Jarvis McGraw makes Ranofer, the main character, easily relatable without turning him into a kid that thinks, talks and acts like a twentieth century American kid who happens to be living in ancient...
| Author | David Macaulay |
| ISBN | 0395321212 |
Pyramid is another of David Macaulay’s popular children’s books published in the 1970s, all of which I think are still in print.
The books feature black and white drawings, occupying most of a page (sometimes spread over two pages) of the large format (12 ½" x p 3/8") hardbound...
A Big Mooncake for Little Star
| Author | Grace Lin |
| ISBN | 0316404489 |
A gorgeous picture book that tells a whimsical origin story of the phases of the moon, from award-winning, bestselling author-illustrator Grace Lin
Pat, pat, pat...
Little Star's soft feet tiptoed to the Big Mooncake.
Little Star loves the delicious Mooncake that she...
| 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...
| Author | Peter Brown |
| ISBN | 0316015474 |
One boy's quest for a greener world... one garden at a time.
While out exploring one day, a little boy named Liam discovers a struggling garden and decides to take care of it. As time passes, the garden spreads throughout the dark, gray city, transforming it into a lush, green world.
This...
| Author | Aliki |
| ISBN | 0064460509 |
A beautifully illustrated, award-winning, and fascinating look at the Middle Ages by Aliki, the beloved creator of many popular books for children. The King is coming to visit! The lord and lady of Camdenton Manor must work quickly to prepare for his arrival. It will take weeks to ready rooms, set up...
| Author | D. Anne Love |
| ISBN | 0823416216 |
I feel very divided in reviewing this book, and torn between giving it three and four stars.
Things I like: This kid-friendly version of the story of Hypatia, a girl born Alexandria in the fourth century CE in a time when girls are not supposed to study philosophy or mathematics or science. But,...
| 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...
| Author | Lois Ehlert |
| ISBN | 0152661972 |
While I certainly do much enjoy the bright and expressive collage like illustrations (especially of the woodpeckers which just happen to also be my favourite birds), I personally think that it would have been better for Lois Ehlert to have either penned a non-fiction book about sugar maples (and woodpeckers)...
Now in many ways Bruce Robertson's Marguerite Makes a Book does a truly wonderful job with both meticulous detail and engagement showing and demonstrating how a hand-painted (illuminated) Mediaeval book is (or more to the point how such a tome generally was) created, was made (and indeed also why these...
| 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...
| Author | Jacqueline Davies |
| ISBN | 0618243437 |
John James Audubon was a boy who loved the out-of-doors more than the in. He was a boy who believed in studying birds in nature, not just from books. And, in the fall of 1804, he was a boy determined to learn if the small birds nesting near his Pennsylvania home really would return the following spring.
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| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0316515264 |
A perfect introduction to mathematical concepts for young readers, written by a Newbery honor-winning author!
This colorfully illustrated biography of the Greek philosopher and scientist Eratosthenes, who compiled the first geography book and accurately measured the globe's circumference,...
| Author | Tomie dePaola |
| ISBN | 0698114019 |
School Library Journal astutely noted the liberal use of "happy colors" in this book: soothing shades of green, pink, blue and yellow. I agree with the idea of their observation; it did seem to me that Bill and Pete Go Down the Nile had an especially cheerful ambience about it, which likely can be attributed...
| Author | Ingri d'Aulaire |
| ISBN | 0964380390 |
Read aloud to my children. They collectively gave it 3.5 stars.
Ellie (6 y.o): I loved it, and I thought the bathtub was really funny. That one little part when he went on a boat was the part I did not like. It was too violent.
Connor (7 y.o.): The reason I didn't I didn't like it was because...
