There's a Pharaoh in Our Bath!
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This issue's cover is a photograph of Anne Frank whose diary is discussed by Michael Rosen fifty years after its first publication. Following the arrest of the Frank family and their companions, the secret annex in Amsterdam where they had been in hiding was locked up and everybody forbidden to enter it, since Jewish possessions became Nazi property and were carted away. Before this happened, the young woman, Miep Gies, who had provided those in hiding with food and who had a second key to the annex, risked herself once more by entering it. Miep retrieved Anne's diary from the devastation together with the Frank family photograph album.
Thanks to Penguin Children's Books for help in reproducing this cover.
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There's a Pharaoh in Our Bath!
Illustrated by Nick Sharratt
An Egyptian mummified Pharaoh, Sennapod (that gives you an idea of the style), comes to life and turns the tables on the evil scientists who have tempted a curse in order to steal his treasure. Carrie and Ben's dad discovers Sennapod, wandering around in his bandages in the rain and, naturally, takes him home where Ben, finding a good use of all his project work on the Egyptians ('See, it is helpful', you can tell your pupils), is able to respond to Sennapod who speaks English and hasn't had his insides removed (all is explained). A romp full of comic nonsense.
