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I Am the Mummy Heb-Nefert

I Am the Mummy Heb-Nefert( )
Author: Bunting, Eve
Illustrator: Christiana, David
ISBN:978-0-15-200479-8
Publication Date:Mar 1997
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $15.00
Book Description:

Clad in flowing linen robes, adorned with jewels, pampered by servants, Heb-Nefert led a life of leisure and joy with her royal husband on the banks of the Nile. Now she lies, a mummy, encased in glass in a museum, and recalls the days of long ago. "A mummy's moving soliloquy on youth, love and the fleeting nature of life is the centerpiece of this hauntingly beautiful picture book."--Publishers Weekly

Book Details
Pages:32
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Middle East
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):7.5 x 11 x 0.4 Inches
Book Weight:0.792 Pounds
Author Biography
Bunting, Eve (Author)
Eve Bunting was born in 1928 in Maghera, Ireland, as Anne Evelyn Bunting. She graduated from Northern Ireland's Methodist College in Belfast in 1945 and then studied at Belfast's Queen's College. She emigrated with her family in 1958 to California, and became a naturalized citizen in 1969.

That same year, she began her writing career, and in 1972, her first book, "The Two Giants" was published. In 1976, "One More Flight" won the Golden Kite Medal, and in 1978, "Ghost of Summer" won the Southern California's Council on Literature for Children and Young People's Award for fiction. "Smokey Night" won the American Library Association's Randolph Caldecott Medal in 1995 and "Winter's Coming" was voted one of the 10 Best Books of 1977 by the New York Times.

Bunting is involved in many writer's organizations such as P.E.N., The Authors Guild, the California Writer's Guild and the Society of Children's Book Writers. She has published stories in both Cricket, and Jack and Jill Magazines, and has written over 150 books in various genres such as children's books, contemporary, historic and realistic fiction, poetry, nonfiction and humor.

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