It’s got a lot of good information (including current events as recent as 2012), and some great color photos and maps.  I just wish it was a little better organized.  It goes from talking about modern Egypt, to its history, and the back to modern life, and then back to history again.  And given that a lot of terminology may be unfamiliar to young readers from other parts of the world,  it could’ve made better use of photos/illustrations to support the text.  For example, on the page talking about the plants and animals of the region, it includes a full-page color photo of a crocodile (a fairly common animal most kids could picture themselves), and includes nothing to illustrate the ibexes, papyruses or lotuses mentioned in the text. And of course the timeline is not really a timeline, but a flowchart of history.