Awfully Ancient: Mangy Mummies, Menacing Pharoahs and Awful Afterlife: A moth-eaten history of the extraordinary Egyptians

Hardback

Main Details

Title Awfully Ancient: Mangy Mummies, Menacing Pharoahs and Awful Afterlife: A moth-eaten history of the extraordinary Egyptians
Authors and Contributors      Illustrated by Tom Morgan-Jones
By (author) Kay Barnham
SeriesAwfully Ancient
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:32
Dimensions(mm): Height 271,Width 215
ISBN/Barcode 9780750279901
ClassificationsDewey:932
Audience
Children / Juvenile
Children's (6-12)
Primary

Publishing Details

Publisher Hachette Children's Group
Imprint Wayland
Publication Date 11 December 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Welcome to Ancient Egypt! Take a trip back in time with us and find out what it was like to live in this powerful civilisation - from fear-inducing pharaohs and grotesque gods to extraordinary embalming techniques and amazing architecture!

Author Biography

Kay Barnham was born in Barrow-in-Furness, grew up in Carlisle, went to college in Brighton, and lived in Hove for a while, before sailing for Kinsale, Co Cork, popping back to Hove and then moving to the New Forest with her husband and daughter. And never at any point has she lived more than ten miles from the sea. She began working in children's publishing in 1992. She was an editor first of all, working on illustrated non-fiction and learning fun facts like how long it would take to walk to the moon - nine years - and how to spell palaeontology. Next, she commissioned fiction titles, editing picture books, storybooks and novels. And then she got the chance to write her own books, which she thinks is quite the best job ever. Except possibly being a chocolatier. She writes non-fiction as Kay Barnham. Her specialist subjects include ice-skating, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, lightning, fairies, Roald Dahl, Sir Isaac Newton, Christmas, dolphins, Florence Nightingale and very bad cracker jokes. And chocolate. She also writes fiction as Kay Woodward, including the Skate School series for Usborne and the novels Jane Airhead and Wuthering Hearts for Andersen Press. Altogether, she's written about a hundred books. Her favourite colour is navy blue. Her favourite chocolate is 85% cocoa solids.