Children's Fiction Mysteries & Detective Stories
Eli and the Real Live Dead Mummy
- Publisher
- Red Deer Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2024
- Category
- Mysteries & Detective Stories, Humorous Stories
- Recommended Age
- 5 to 8
- Recommended Grade
- k to 3
- Recommended Reading age
- 5 to 8
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780889957305
- Publish Date
- Dec 2024
- List Price
- $23.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780889957725
- Publish Date
- Oct 2024
- List Price
- $14.99
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Description
Based on true events, this story relates the fictional encounter between a young patient at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children and Djetmattasankh, a 3000-yearold mummy.
In 2009, the mummy was sent from the Royal Ontario Museum's Egyptian Display to the hospital, for scanning, under the supervision of Dr. Peter Lewin who was both a pediatrician and a paleopathologist.
In this creative re-imagining, hilarity results as a young patient tries to convince his parent's that he did not imagine the mummy in the hospital!
About the authors
Sam Fisher worked as a scenic carpenter on movie sets before quitting his day job to become a writer and teacher. A native of England, Sam now lives with his wife and children in Canada, where he teaches screenwriting and film production at NSCAD University. Scare Scape is his first novel.
Judy Hilgemann has been an artist and illustrator all her life. She has illustrated several books, including B is for Basketball, which was the official book of the 2011All Native Basketball Tournament and was shortlisted for the First Nations Communities READ program for 2014–2015. She is a member of the Island Illustrator’s Society and Federation of Canadian Artists. She lives in Queen Charlotte, BC.
