I read many of the sections aloud to my own children who couldn’t wait to hear more. The quick pace and fun drawings kept the story alive. And they left his genitals so no one would mistake him for Queen Tut.” They left Tut’s heart in his body because he was going to need that to think. They didn’t take Tut’s teeth, nails, and eyeballs. “The Egyptians believed the brain’s only job was to keep the ears apart, and that the heart did all the thinking. Just think of a group of students learning about King Tut: The information was simply explained with a smidge of dry humor. If history had been taught to me in this way I might have become a history teacher. I chuckled throughout the book and had a hard time putting it down. This book is full of voice and facts presented in the most entertaining of ways. I finally, months after first being taunted by it, purchased the book. The book continued to haunt me at Scholastic Book Fairs, in class libraries, and on the Lone Star book list. I casually flipped through the book, but wasn’t able to purchase it right away. I have been told a few times that I have a “dark side” and this book spoke to me. The usually unexciting historical nonfiction side had this brightly colored book with a huge skeleton on the front. The first time I saw this book it was glaring at me at Barnes and Noble.
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