by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
This is another Newberry Honor book that my son and I are reading together. I enjoyed it and thought it was a fun story. It starts out with two girls and their little 4 year old brother that love "Egyptology" so they create their own imaginative game to play in secret. As they bring new kids with ne...
Great characters, solid writing. Why on Earth does the back cover reveal 75% of the plot? A little sad it took me so long to get to this, as my niece may have aged out of it, but maybe I can convince her to read it to her little sister.
If it hadn't been for Wanda's Summer Carnival of Children's Literature, I would not have heard of The Egypt Game. The story of a group of kids who start out as strangers but grow close through their interest in Ancient Egypt was as charming as it was edgy. I seriously had not expected the dark tur...
We read this book in school, but I also loved all of Zilpha Keatley-Snyder's work, esp the Great Stanley Kidnapping Case. A few years ago I heard her speak at my public library, and she was just wonderful, very warm and funny.
I really enjoyed this book when I was little. I remember little about it now, but I hope to own a copy to pass on to my daughter in a few years.
Another book brought out of hiding for my nephew's benefit, another book impossible to ignore. The great thing about Snyder's books is that the only magic around is the magic you make yourself. Her books gave her protagonists control over their often difficult lives and insecurities, gave them happi...
Another book brought out of hiding for my nephew's benefit, another book impossible to ignore. The great thing about Snyder's books is that the only magic around is the magic you make yourself. Her books gave her protagonists control over their often difficult lives and insecurities, gave them happi...
A ragtag group of children form a secret society, complete with an oracular statue, in an abandoned lot. To this day, I eye abandoned lots in the hopes of having my own Egypt Game.
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