Science facts made fun through visual humor! The mummies in this book aren’t your parents’ quiet ones. These mummies are full of life and so- full of vibrations and sound!

Let’s begin with the book’s cover, “Walk Like an Egyptian” is most likely the song this mummy is strolling to as he listens to his walkman through his big headphones.

The book is divided into five easy chapters. Chapter One – ‘What is Sound ‘  includes a graphic of three mummies toasting marshmallows around a campfire with the boxed caption, ” Energy is the ability to do work. Without energy, plants couldn’t grow. Fires couldn’t burn, and mummies couldn’t do… whatever mummies do.” From there- vibration, molecules, and the speed of sound is introduced with memorably humorous illustrations of mummies discovering  facts of sound transmission. Chapter Two – “Picking Apart Sound” covers: volume, decibels, frequency, pitch, and hertz. Chapter Three – “Sound on the Move covers: absorb, reflect, refract, and vacuum. Chapter Four – “Making Sounds, Hearing Sound” covers the biology of hearing with organ, eardrum, and cochlea. And in Chapter Five- “Sound All Around” the uses for sound, such as, sonar are introduced.

Includes three questions in a section entitled, “Critical Thinking Using the Common Core” , but no immediate answers are given. Page numbers are given referring to the item in question, as well as, (Key Ideas and Details) and (Integration of Knowledge and Ideas).