The Shipwrecked Sailor: An Egyptian Tale with Hieroglyphs
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (715 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0689830467 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 32 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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The book is most successful, however, as a peek into ancient Egyptian folklore, art, and language. Bower's captivating pictures illustrate the story in the style of ancient Egyptian artists, utilizing vivid earth tones, blues, greens, and reds to depict a world that seems orderly even as a ship is overturned and its sailors drown. . Scott School, Leonia, NJ Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. The sole survivor of a shipwreck relates being washed up on the shore of a paradisiacal "Island of the Soul" inhabited only by a huge serpent. Sherman, formerly at Anna C. Pair this tale with Eric Kimmel's Onions and Garlic (Holiday, 1996) in a shipwreck-survivors storytime for school-aged children.Louise L. Five pages at the end give fascinating background. Hieroglyphic representations of highlighted phrases with their phonetic Egyptian translations appear on most pages of text. From School Library Journal Grade 1-5-Children fascinated
Will Riddle said Key resource for any Ancient Egypt unit. I absolutely love this book. I am a VERY picky homeschooler and have tried many kids' books on Ancient Egypt, but this one is one of the best.The story is a fairy tale, but a real one from Ancient Egypt, about a sailor who is shipwrecked on a mythical island. There he meets an empathetic serpent who befriends him and pred. How could a shipwreck turn out to be good? Imagine you are a sailor on your way to work in the mines. You ship gets wrecked by a hugh wave in a storm. You are the only survivor. You float toward an island. Once you get on land the trees split and the earth trembles. A giant snake appears who demands to know how you got there. This is BAD!When you are rescued four . Insight into the Egyptian Imagination David O'Connor, Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art Tamara Bower's book, The Shipwrecked Sailor, provides delightful and instructive insight into the ancient Egyptian's imagination, as expressed in their literature and art. With hieroglyphs aptly translated by Melinda Hartwig, both children and adults will find this an entertaining, instructive, but above all beautiful boo
. She has worked with numerous learned scholars and has traveled to Egypt to work on excavations in Abydos with the University of Pennsylvania. Tamara Bower has been fascinated with ancient Egypt since childhood, when she was drawing hieroglyphs all over her school noteboooks. Ms. She was trained in archaeological illustrations in the Egyptian Department of the Metropolitan Museum of
Not long after he arrives, a gigantic serpent with scales of gold appears and reveals to the sailor that he is the Prince of Punt, and is also a lone survivor. The two become good friends, but one day a ship comes to rescue the sailor. It tells the tale of a voyage on the Red Sea to a mysterious and enchanted land of riches located south of Egypt. This story is based on one found on a papyrus scroll of hieroglyphs from the nineteenth century B.C., Egypt. This is a tale of the surprising (and fortuitous) bonds that unite us, and of the good that comes to us when we least expect it. On his way to the King's gold mines, a sailor is shipwrecked on a magic island, the Island of the Soul. Tamara Bower's lush illustrations are rendered in Egyptian style, and phrases from the story appear in hieroglyphs with their literal translations.. Bearing gifts from the Prince, the sailor returns to Egypt with full hands, and a full heart