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Beebe, Katy

Nile Crossing

40 pp. | Eerdmans | October, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8028-5425-4 $18.00
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Sally Wern Comport. Ancient Egyptian boy Khepri lyrically narrates a boat ride down the Nile that ends in Thebes with his father handing him special reeds for writing. The warm father-son relationship and Khepri's feelings of strangeness at beginning school will help today's readers relate. Illustrator Comport combines the two-dimensionality of ancient Egyptian art with more naturalistic techniques. An appended double-page spread extends Khepri's fictitious story. Reading list. Glos.
Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2018

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