We're big fans of DK books. Do you have this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Egypt-.../dp/0756606462
http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Egypt-.../dp/0756606462
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These might not be interesting for a four year old. They're not very visually interesting (black and white line drawings) and the content can be rough, with an emphasis on the gory and bizarre. DD was older 6 or 7 (???) when she got into them, and she regularly reads/rereads all of the series (Horrible Science and Horrible Geography; I can't get my hands on Horrible Maths). DS started them at 6 IIRC, but I don't know how much he actually reads them as much as looking at the cartoons.
Ditto the DK, MSB and the If I Were a Kid -those ones are great. Heiroglyphics are a lot of fun, and a child with good fine motor skills might enjoy carving words in heiroglyphs into clay. Good Times Travel Agency has an Ancient Egypt book, and Usborne has highly visual resources as well.
Ancient Egypt is a lot of fun, and both of my kids happily branched into a lot of Ancient World stuff and my daughter is a huge mythology buff, of all varieties.
Originally Posted by LaughingHyena  How about the horrible histories series http://www5.scholastic.co.uk/zone/bo...-histories.htm We're inheriting my brothers collection for my 5 year old next time we visit. I seem to remember him starting about collecting them at about 6. |
Ditto the DK, MSB and the If I Were a Kid -those ones are great. Heiroglyphics are a lot of fun, and a child with good fine motor skills might enjoy carving words in heiroglyphs into clay. Good Times Travel Agency has an Ancient Egypt book, and Usborne has highly visual resources as well.
Ancient Egypt is a lot of fun, and both of my kids happily branched into a lot of Ancient World stuff and my daughter is a huge mythology buff, of all varieties.
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Originally Posted by cdahlgrd "If I were a kid. . . " series is good. I went to Amazon and searched for children's ancient Egypt and got pages of results. I know for our 9 year old, he has churned through a lot of those books and they are good for our 4 yo twins too. I would guess there are some great Osborne books too. We have some on mythology that are great for beginner readers/beginner history buffs. |
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We're in CA, so unfortunately a trip to NYC is not in the cards for us right now. We did go to the Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose, CA (http://www.egyptianmuseum.org/), and if anyone is in the area I'd recommend checking it out. They have a few human mummies (one of a 4 year old girl), several animal mummies, and a re-created tomb, which DD really enjoyed.
Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I picked up the DK book at the library the other day and have requests in for others.
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Some mentioned the Story of the World Activity Book in my other post; they have a chicken mummy activity that sounds really cool! FYI for those of you who also have kids really excited about mummies.
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Originally Posted by eepster If you live even slightly close to NYC, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has a great Egyptian section that's worth traveling for. |
Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I picked up the DK book at the library the other day and have requests in for others.
Some mentioned the Story of the World Activity Book in my other post; they have a chicken mummy activity that sounds really cool! FYI for those of you who also have kids really excited about mummies.
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