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The riddle of the Rosetta Stone key to ancient Egypt : illustrated with photographs, prints, and drawings

Describes how the discovery and deciphering of the Rosetta Stone unlocked the secret of Egyptian hieroglyphics.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Giblin, James
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, c1990.
Subjects:	Rosetta stone > Juvenile nonfiction. Egyptian language > Writing, Hieroglyphic > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:	Describes how the discovery and deciphering of the Rosetta Stone unlocked the secret of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Physical Description:	85 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [78]-79) and index.
ISBN:	0690047975 0690047991 (lib. bdg.) :
Author Notes:	James Cross Giblin was born in Cleveland, Ohio on July 8, 1933. He received a B. A. from Western Reserve University in 1954 and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University in 1955. He pursued playwriting before taking a job at Criterion Books in 1959. He focused on the children's book field. In the early to mid-1960s, he was an associate editor at Lothrop, Lee and Shepard. In 1967, he moved to Seabury Press, where he became editor-in-chief, spearheading the development of the children's book line there, later called Clarion Books. When Houghton Mifflin bought Clarion in the late 1970s, he moved to the company as Clarion's publisher. As an editor, he worked with such authors as Eileen Christelow and Mary Downing Hahn. His first children's book, The Scarecrow Book written with Dale Ferguson, was published in 1980. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 20 books for young readers, mainly nonfiction, historical nonfiction, and biographies. He won several awards including the 1983 National Book Award for Chimney Sweeps: Yesterday and Today and the 2003 Sibert Medal for The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler. He died on April 10, 2016 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography)