Step into the sands of ancient Egypt, where pharaohs prayed to gods with the heads of jackals, falcons and cats. This volume turns Egypt's most powerful deities into huggable little characters, ready for your crayons and colored pencils.
Every little god below comes from real Egyptian mythology. Each story ends with a link to the book so you can meet them all.
Anubis has the head of a jackal and one of the most important jobs in the underworld: weighing hearts. Ancient Egyptians believed he placed your heart on a scale against a single feather — light as a feather, and you passed on to paradise!
Ra sailed across the sky in a solar boat every single day, and every single night he had to fight a giant serpent named Apophis just to make the sun rise again. Now that's a day job.
Isis was the ultimate protector — a goddess of magic so powerful she once tricked Ra into revealing his secret true name. Egyptians believed she could heal almost anything with a spell and a little devotion.
Bastet started out as a fierce lioness warrior before becoming everyone's favorite cat goddess. Ancient Egyptians loved cats so much that harming one — even by accident — could get you in serious trouble.
Horus, the falcon-headed sky god, lost an eye in an epic battle with his uncle Set — and that eye became one of Egypt's most powerful protective symbols, the Eye of Horus.
Sobek, the crocodile god, was both feared and adored: Egyptians believed that respecting him kept the Nile's real crocodiles calm, and some temples even kept live sacred crocodiles as his pets.