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Amazing Mummies by Iqbal Hussain
is Golden Books' Sunday comics-type approach to mummies for older
readers. A large-size book (roughly 9x12 inches), it mixes flashy splotches
of color, wild type, and engrossing photos
to accompany the fact-filled text which has been broken into small
easy-to-digest paragraphs. For example, the first 2-page spread entitled
Amazing Mummies features an introductory paragraph, 3
question-and-answer paragraphs, a sidebar, a joke in the right-hand
margin, a believe-it-or-not box, one large photo and three drawings.
Whew! Other pages contain that much and more which makes it perfect for
older kids looking for mummy facts in bite-sized morsels. Index, but no
bibliography.
