LIVING IN . . . EGYPT

I purchased the book even though there are negative comments, and I did not find it as negative as the way they describe it. It is better to keep an open mind when reading about Islam, and not all the people are extremists. I wanted to use the book to start an open dialogue with my children about the goods and bads about religion and ability to explain it with parental guidance. We actually enjoyed the book a lot and look forward to more books to come.

I LOVE this series. They are written from the perspective of a child in that country, with a variety of family types represented. They all include an overview of what their day is like, what school is like, as well as cultural, historic, and geographic info, with some pronunciation help where needed. I like to read the same one every day for a week, and my son notices and latches onto a new detail every time. We often end up Googling some question that the text brings up.

We purchased the whole series but we are dissatisfied there is misinformation on some books and one it's completely different from the series "Egypt" be aware, this book is about muslim religion from beginning to end and incites your child to repeat some muslim phrases. What I found totally strange it's the fact that religion is not mention in the Italian nor the Indian book so, why to place religion in the Egypt book and if they are doing so, why not to place the whole picture and accurate history or why not place some religion facts in the Italian or Indian, too weird isn't it? I'm not saying anything against any belief, but deff I don't like brain washing especially at this young age, picture this "the kid has the whole series and only finds out about muslim and a great deal of it (almost the whole book!), conclusion for him if there is not religion at home, Muslim is the religion". The whole series doesn't present religion but one. The Mexican one, well, it's not that big of the deal but quesadillas aren't quite like that, those are the American's version of quesadillas. The Australian one has an ostrich on the cover! The idea is quite lovely and I felt in love as soon as I saw them, however, they are not very accurate.

Its a very good book

I agree with the negative reviews. I ordered all the books in this series. This book includes a lot of content about religion (Islam), whereas the other books in the series do not. Also, there is a sharp contrast between how the British rulers are covered in the India book and how the Arab Muslim invaders are covered in the Egypt book... to the point of absurdity. For example, the text reads that many people “chose” to follow Islam after Arab Muslims took over the country.