This book is part of a book series called Stories From Around the World .

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Hachette Children's Group .

Kathy Elgin works in the education/publications deaprtment of the Royal Shakespeare Company. She is the series consultant. John Cech has been a professor of children's literature at the University of Florida in Gainesville for the past 30 years. Cech is the author of the first six books in the Classic Fairy Tale Collection, as well as Sterling's Aesop's Fables and The Nutcracker. Fiona Sansom studied illustration at Kingston University in the United Kingdom. She is a full-time freelance illustrator and her work appears in the Kingston Museum's Brill Collection.

This book has the following chapters: Introduction How Ra Created The World The Bennu Bird How Thoth Overcame The Curse Of Ra The Story Of The Red Beer How Isis Tricked Ra Into Revealing His Secret Name How Ra Travelled The Skies In His Great Boat The Legend Of Osiris Seth And The Stone Boat The Eye Of Horus The Great Battle Between Seth And Horus The Weighing Of The Heart And Feather The Boy Who Read The Sealed Letter King Thutmose And The Sphinx The Golden Lotus The Girl With The Rose-Red Slippers The Story Of The Shipwrecked Sailor The Adventures Of Sinuhe The Treasure Thief Who's Who In Egyptian Myths Glossary Further Information Index