The Egyptians believed in an afterlife. When someone died they believed that the person’s “Ka”, or double, lived on. Therefore, the Egyptians would preserve a person’s body, so that the “Ka” could bring the body back to life in the afterlife.
 
The bodies of the dead would be embalmed. The internal organs, such as the intestines, [...]

Elizabeth was born on September 7th 1533. This Royal Diary covers the year 1544 when she was 11. Elizabeth’s father King Henry VIII has just married his sixth wife - Elizabeth’s fourth step-mother! Elizabeth’s mother was Anne Boleyn. Anne married Henry in 1533 and three years later he had  her head cut off! (He married his third [...]

Bet lots of you will be learning about the Olympic Games to be hosted by China soon. If you want to know more about China, Modern China is a great new book in a series  published by DK Eyewitness books. The layout is great with tons of photos and info on topics like megacities, family life, fashion and much more. There is also a [...]

I came across the book Taming the Sun by Gavin Bishop and was engrossed with it. It is sort of a quick read one and has lots of wonderful illustrations. It has four Maori myths in one book so you really get a cool deal. The stories are entertaining and it always has a bit [...]

I was reading a folk tale the other day that I hadn’t read since I was a child, ‘How Bear lost his tail’. This folk tale originated in North America (it’s an Ojibwe legend) but it has been retold by Julia Wall and beautifully illustrated by Ali Teo. It’s all about Bear, who thought that [...]

Car science by Richard Hammond is a new book that we have just recieved at the library. It is jam packed full of amazing facts, incredible illustrations and inventions. It explains the history of cars very well, and also has interesting facts about what cars might be like in the future. Some scientists are putting effort into developing hybrid [...]

With it being winter its a nice time to try some cooking! Do you like cooking? What about trying to cook food from different countries? Around the world cookbook by Johnson Dodge has more than fifty international recipes. It tells you a little bit about the country that the recipe comes from also. There’s a [...]

I love books, I love art and I love scary things. So when I saw the book Art to Make You Scared  by Elizabeth Newbury sitting in the library, I knew I had to pick it up and read it. Although the book has only 8 works of art, it tells you a little about the [...]

Pirates, shipwrecks, hungry tigers, houses built in trees, girls masquerading as boys, adventure and more await you in this classic movie. (You could also read the book.)
 
I began watching this classic movie again last night and when two of my (now grown up) children came into the room I would pause it on some obscure [...]

The first pyramid in Egypt was built as the burial place of King Djoser in 2630 B.C. It is called the Step Pyramid because it rises in steps. It was designed as a giant stairway for Djoser to climb to the sun-god in the sky.
 
King Sneferu developed the Great Pyramid with sloping sides. It was [...]