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Author : Joan Grant
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991-04
Category : Hippopotamus
ISBN : 0671749773
Having fallen in love with a human princess, a hippopotamus goes to a magician to be turned into something that the princess could love in return.
Author : Phoebe Gilman,Joan Marshall Grant
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443124386
Now in paperback - Phoebe Gilman and Joanne Fitzgerald's beautiful story about the transformative power of love. When a little hippo falls in love with an Egyptian princess, he hopes that a great magician can turn him into a human boy. Alas, even the magician can't perform such a feat! Instead, the magician turns him into a toy that the princess can playwith - a beautiful blue hippo on wheels. The princess adores her toy and takes him everywhere with her. But little girls don't play with toys forever. The princess grows up and yearns for a true love. Can the hippo make her wish come true? Based on a story by Joan Grant, The Blue Hippopotamus was Phoebe Gilman's final book. The illustrations by Joanne Fitzgerald were inspired by sketches Phoebe drew before her death in 2002. *A Governor General's Award nominee!
Author : Alice Kane
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551110474
The late Alice Kane was born in Ireland in 1908. Moving with her parents to Canada in 1921, she was educated in New Brunswick and at McGill University in Montreal before beginning a career with the Toronto Public Library, where she had a major interest in fairy tales. After her retirement in 1973, she taught Children’s Literature at the University of New Brunswick, then began a second career as a professional storyteller in association with the Storytellers School of Toronto. She was a featured performer at many storytelling events, including the American Storytelling Festival at Jonesborough, Tennessee. Her rich oral heritage is remembered in Songs and Sayings of and Ulster Childhood, edited by Edith Fowke (1983).
Author : Pat Remler
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781438131801
Alphabetically listed entries identify and explain the places, figures, animals, beliefs, and other important themes of Egyptian mythology.
Author : Adela Oppenheim,Dorothea Arnold,Dieter Arnold,Kei Yamamoto
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588395641
The Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030–1650 B.C.) was a transformational period in ancient Egypt, during which older artistic conventions, cultural principles, religious beliefs, and political systems were revived and reimagined. Ancient Egypt Transformed presents a comprehensive picture of the art of the Middle Kingdom, arguably the least known of Egypt’s three kingdoms and yet one that saw the creation of powerful, compelling works rendered with great subtlety and sensitivity. The book brings together nearly 300 diverse works— including sculpture, relief decoration, stelae, jewelry, coffins, funerary objects, and personal possessions from the world’s leading collections of Egyptian art. Essays on architecture, statuary, tomb and temple relief decoration, and stele explore how Middle Kingdom artists adapted forms and iconography of the Old Kingdom, using existing conventions to create strikingly original works. Twelve lavishly illustrated chapters, each with a scholarly essay and entries on related objects, begin with discussions of the distinctive art that arose in the south during the early Middle Kingdom, the artistic developments that followed the return to Egypt’s traditional capital in the north, and the renewed construction of pyramid complexes. Thematic chapters devoted to the pharaoh, royal women, the court, and the vital role of family explore art created for different strata of Egyptian society, while others provide insight into Egypt’s expanding relations with foreign lands and the themes of Middle Kingdom literature. The era’s religious beliefs and practices, such as the pilgrimage to Abydos, are revealed through magnificent objects created for tombs, chapels, and temples. Finally, the book discusses Middle Kingdom archaeological sites, including excavations undertaken by the Metropolitan Museum over a number of decades. Written by an international team of respected Egyptologists and Middle Kingdom specialists, the text provides recent scholarship and fresh insights, making the book an authoritative resource.
Author : Paul Ehrlich
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466928510
Writing The Blue Hippopotamus was great fun-sort of reliving my early life and making some incidents even better than they were the first time. What I wanted most of all was to write a page-turner, to give the reader a chance to actually live and feel what I had lived and felt. In a sense, my own life was a page-turner, from day to day, and a wonderful one that I enjoyed and loved-even the difficult and painful happenings. I think that I've been tremendously lucky to have had such a-almost a charmed life-and that's what I wanted to share with the reader. Yes, there were moments and incidents that were difficult and sometimes very painful, like when I said my final goodbye to Maidi, the love of my life, and what a remarkable love that was-several professional authors have called that good-bye "heartbreaking," and so it was. It was my heart that was breaking, and Maidi's, but we both knew that it had to be that way, and we accepted it. And then of course, many, many years later, we finally met again by chance, or by accident, in Paris, and the closure we had needed for so many years finally arrived. I wrote the book when I was ninety, and I was the last survivor of our group of five. We had all been made to swear that we would never tell. But after seventy years, I felt the story could, and should, be told.
Author : Phoebe Gilman
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bedrooms
ISBN : 0439961858
No one can keep up with Jillian Jiggs. With boundless energy and imagination, Jillian rushes from game to game. One minute she's a robot, the next minute she's a tree. How can she take time to clean up her room when there are so many wonderful things to make and do? No one knows what Jillian will think of next- especially not her mother!
Author : Abeer El-Shahawy,Matḥaf al-Miṣrī
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 9771721836
Cairo’s Egyptian Museum houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world. Some 150,000 pieces are exhibited, and another 30,000 are held in storerooms. This book carries full-color illustrations of many of the masterpieces of ancient art in the museum from the decorated vases, flint knives, and palettes of the predynastic period, through the magnificent artifacts of the pharaonic period, to the beautiful tempera portraits of the Roman period.
Author : Peter Lacovara
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216168430
This absorbing reference covers everyday life in ancient Egypt, spanning a period of more than 5,000 years—from the Stone Age to the advent of Christianity. The mysteries surrounding ancient Egypt continue to pique interest and prompt study thousands of years later. Intriguing questions—such as "Why were certain Egyptians mummified after death, while others were not?", "How were the pyramids constructed?", and "Were sexuality and courtship accurately portrayed in movies about the period?"—incite curiosity and inspire the imagination in the modern world. This comprehensive encyclopedia addresses these questions and more, revealing fascinating facts about all aspects of daily life in ancient Egypt. Starting with the beginning of the First Dynasty to the death of Cleopatra, this compendium explores the family life, politics, religion, and culture of the Nile Valley from Aswan to the Delta, as well as the peripheral areas of Nubia, the Oases, the Sinai, and the southern Levant. Each topical section opens with an introductory essay, followed by A–Z entries on such topics as food, fashion, housing, politics, and community. The book features a timeline of events, an extensive bibliography of print and digital resources, and numerous photographs and illustrations throughout.
Author : Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Art
ISBN : CHI:13896545
Author : Joan Marshall Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : OCLC:37556463
Eight tales set in ancient Egypt including "The Blue Faience Hippopotamus," "The Scorpion and the Song-Bird," and "The Tortoise Who Was Proud."
Author : Alice Kane
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Mythology
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Henry George Fischer
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Art, Egyptian
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Dieter Arnold
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780870996122
As a result of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's renewed excavations in Lisht, the Egyptian Department published The Pyramid of Senwosret I by Dieter Arnold in 1988, followed in 1990 by The Control Notes and Team Marks by Felix Arnold. The first volume examined the main pyramid and its related mortuary installations, while this third volume, The Pyramid Complex of Senwosret I by Dieter Arnold, discusses the monuments and objects found within the outer enclosure wall of the royal pyramid, mainly the nine subsidiary pyramids and other tombs belonging to members of the royal family and their households. Although the pyramids and their surrounding installations are much destroyed and the burials pillaged, it has been possible to reconstruct, to some degree, the architecture from these ruins. Such a reconstruction is particularly important, as no other pyramid enclosures of the Middle Kingdom, and very few of the Old Kingdom, have ever been so thoroughly excavated and published. The results of this enterprise provide an important contribution to our understanding of the structure and development of the royal funerary complexes of the Middle Kingdom.
Author : Peter Lacovara
Publisher : Lockwood Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781957454900
Just in time for the centennial of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, this volume of studies dedicated to the leading expert on the "boy king" brings together scholars from all over the world to celebrate the career of C. Nicholas Reeves. It includes a biography and bibliography of Reeves along with cutting-edge discussions of a wide variety of topics concentrating on New Kingdom Egypt and Tutankhamun.