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Mummy Riddles

AUTHOR: Katy Hall
ISBN: 0141303646
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Mummy Riddles
- Book Review, by Katy Hall

From School Library Journal
Grade 2-5. With riddles such as "What did the mummy say when he got angry with the skeleton? 'I have a bone to pick with you,'" this lively collection of puns and jokes is likely to be frightfully popular both as a read aloud and read alone and is more accessible for less advanced readers than Dave Ross's Mummy Madness (Watts, 1979; o.p.). Rubel's brightly colored cartoon mummies have an amazing range of facial expressions. Is that a mummified Rotten Ralph on the title page? Both librarians and teachers will want to use Mummy Riddles to wrap up a book talk or a unit on ancient Egypt, and it's dead certain to tickle the funny bones of newly independent readers.?Eunice Weech, M. L. King Elementary School, Urbana, ILCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Gr. 1^-3. From the pun on the dedication page ("to my mummy") to the riddle about how mummies like their coffee ("De-coffin-ated"), the droll and grisly wordplay will appeal to new readers as much as Hall and Eisenberg's other riddle books in the Dial Easy-to-Read series. The bright, detailed illustrations are as deadpan and silly as the words. "Of corpse! Of corpse!" Hazel Rochman

Book Description
Where do mummies swim? In the Dead Sea. Do mummies enjoy being mummies? Of corpse! And so will young readers when they wrap themselves up in these sidesplitting riddles! The colorful, spooky illustrations add to the humor.

"This lively collection of puns and jokes is likely to be frightfully popular." --School Library Journal

* 40 pages
* Ages 6-9
* Puffin Easy-to-Reads
* Full-color illustrations

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Book Review

Mummy Riddles
- Book Reviews, by Katy Hall

Mummy Riddles

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Where do mummies swim? In the Dead Sea. Do mummies enjoy being mummies? Of corpse! And so will young readers when they wrap themselves up in these sidesplitting riddles! The colorful, spooky illustrations add to the humor."This lively collection of puns and jokes is likely to be frightfully popular." --School Library Journal* 40 pages * Ages 6-9 * Puffin Easy-to-Reads * Full-color illustrations

FROM THE CRITICS

Children's Literature - Deborah Zink Roffino

Rubel's perky characters and cool colors jazz up these punny jokes in an easy reader. The riddles run from very silly to not-so-bad-with good lines about Lake "Eerie", the "Dead" Sea and anything Egyptian. Mummy and daddy will have to do some explaining which makes this a surprise teaching tool.

School Library Journal

Gr 2-5--With riddles such as "What did the mummy say when he got angry with the skeleton? `I have a bone to pick with you,'" this lively collection of puns and jokes is likely to be frightfully popular both as a read aloud and read alone and is more accessible for less advanced readers than Dave Ross's Mummy Madness (Watts, 1979; o.p.). Rubel's brightly colored cartoon mummies have an amazing range of facial expressions. Is that a mummified Rotten Ralph on the title page? Both librarians and teachers will want to use Mummy Riddles to wrap up a book talk or a unit on ancient Egypt, and it's dead certain to tickle the funny bones of newly independent readers.--Eunice Weech, M. L. King Elementary School, Urbana, IL

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