TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sands,Emily
AU  - Andrew,Ian
AU  - Harris,Nick
AU  - Ward,Helen
TI  - Egyptology: search for the tomb of Osiris : being the journal of Miss Emily Sands, November 1926 
SN  - 0763626384 (unjacketed hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - DT60 .S22 2004
U1  - 932 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Candlewick Press
KW  - Toy and movable books
KW  - Specimens
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Description and travel
N2  - Bound in gold and embellished with ruby-red "jewels," this follow-up to Dr. Ernest Drake's Dragonology (2003)--which, like Dragonology, credits a fictional character as its author, leaving those responsible for its written content unacknowledged--purports to be the scrapbook of an amateur archaeologist gone missing during the height of 1920s Egyptomania. As in Dragonology, pull-out documents, sundry flaps, and other novelty elements (including a "sample of mummy cloth" and a game of Egyptian checkers) will have children breathlessly anticipating each page turn. Even so, this seems to lack the cohesive artistic purpose that distinguished its predecessor. The images often appear overly slick, compromising the notion that they have been sketched on the fly by members of the expedition, and a fantastical frame story about the "lost tomb of Osiris" undermines the informational content, despite an awkward concluding attempt to separate fact from fiction. Dragonology's broad crossover success probably won't be reincarnated here, but the allure of the subject matter and the luxe packaging is likely to be considerable
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0619/2004107614-d.html
ER  -