Lanny B. Boutin Freelance Author

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Mummies: All Wrapped Up

by Lanny Boutin
designed by Mark Glover
edited by Lucy Armour

Heinemann Education
17 cm x 22.5 cm (8.75" x 9.75") Glossy
ISBN 1-86970-382-0

Mummies have always fascinated us. There is something both exhilarating and frightening about gazing at the face of someone who has been dead for a hundred years; we are left wondering why would ancient men go to such lengths to preserve something so fragile?

Mummies: All Wrapped Up sets out to answer those questions. Why were mommies made, by whom and how, as well as the fascinating phenomenon of natural mummies.

Mummies: All Wrapped Up is also designed help children write informational reports. With list, suggestions and hints for things like finding information, reviewing you work and making your report an interesting and usefully read!

Excerpt from Mummies: All Wrapped Up

"Many ancient cultures believed in an afterlife: another world where people go after they die. Some also believed that people must take their bodies undamaged with them. But nature has other ideas.

When a person or animal dies, the body's own bacteria begin to consume it. Eventually only the skeleton is left behind. So, to asset the trip to the afterlife, people started preserving, or mummifying, their dead.

Mummies have been found all over the world. Some are naturally mummified. Others went through elaborate, lengthy ceremonies on their way to becoming mummies.

But, no matter how they were created, mummies hold the answers to a lot of important questions about the past, such as what people looked like and how they lived."

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