{"id":1308,"date":"2013-03-10T22:22:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T22:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2013-03-10T22:28:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T22:28:32","slug":"ancient-egypt-tales-of-gods-and-pharaohs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2013\/03\/ancient-egypt-tales-of-gods-and-pharaohs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Egypt: Tales of Gods and Pharaohs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130310-222550.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130310-222550.jpg\" alt=\"20130310-222550.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is sumptuous book with its large format, some double page spreads and nine fantastic stories of Egyptian Pharos &#038; gods. The stories are retold in comic strip format which I thought worked really well and echoed the feeling of hieroglyphics.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t familiar with these Egyptian stories so I&#8217;m not sure whether the retellings do them justice, but the comic strip format certainly made the action &#038; adventure of the tales more accessible for Bryn. While I found some of the tales a little gruesome, Bryn was very keen to hear more and happy to explore all the detail within the panels. His favourite page was the double page spread of the &#8216;red hippopotamus&#8217; in the tale of Horus the Avenger. This break from the comic strip panel to one large picture created impact &#038; added to the drama of the story.<\/p>\n<p>Underneath the stories runs a single comic strip providing an historic commentary from a cat. This includes details on mummification and an alphabet of hieroglyphics. We enjoyed using the latter to write out our names.<\/p>\n<p>A really enjoyable book providing an engaging introduction to Egyptian mythology and history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is sumptuous book with its large format, some double page spreads and nine fantastic stories of Egyptian Pharos &#038; gods. The stories are retold in comic strip format which I thought worked really well and echoed the feeling of hieroglyphics. I wasn&#8217;t familiar with these Egyptian stories so I&#8217;m not sure whether the retellings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,9],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bryn","tag-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}