Scholastic History Readers
by Stephen Krensky

This book was very helpful in providing an independent read for my second grader on Ancient Egypt. It is full of very nice photographs and pictures and covers life in this ancient civilization, including very important things like "the river", without spending too much time on the characters in their ancient mythology- something we have chosen to not focus on much till our children are in upper elementary or highschool. On the cover it says "Level 3, ages 7
and 8."