What was one of the most memorable moments of The Golden Goblet? The added plus was that it was educational and got him excited about Ancient Egypt. My son was disappointed it wasn't part of a series. I thought the narrator was great and I was happy to listen along. My 10 year old reluctant reader son loved this book. What did you love best about The Golden Goblet? There are also a few references to wine and barley beer, but otherwise this is a very suspenseful story that is fun to read.Suspense in Ancient Egypt - Fun and Eudcational Reading such literature does not necessarily give honor to the pagan deities, and in fact a great contrast can be shown between the superstition of the Egyptians and the reasonable beliefs of Christianity. As with the same author’s Mara, Daughter of the Nile, there is reference to Egyptian gods, but it is a historical fact that the ancient Egyptians worshipped false gods. But will he survive the trip to the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings? And if so, will he end up being accused of the crime? With his new friends, Heqet who is a new apprentice at Rekh’s shop, and the Ancient who is a papyrus cutter, Ranofer struggles to reveal a terrible crime involving a priceless golden goblet that he finds in Gebu’s room, thwart the sinister plottings of Gebu, and reshape his own destiny so that he can become master goldsmith like their father. Then Gebu suddenly removes him from the goldsmith’s and puts him to work in his own stonecutting shop. One day Rekh announces that some bits of gold have been turning up missing, and Ranofer begins to put two and two together and questions his brother. However, another servant in the shop, the oily Babylonian Ibni, gives him a wineskin every week or so to take to Gebu, but Gebu always just pours the wine out. His father Thutra, was a master goldsmith who had all but promised to apprentice him to Zau, the greatest goldsmith in Thebes, but now his evil half-brother Gebu, a stonecutter who has taken control of their father’s estate and beats the boy frequently, has hired him out to be just a servant in the goldsmith shop of the kindly Rekh. In this exciting tale of ancient Egyptian mystery and intrigue, a young Egyptian boy named Ranofer has lost both his parents. republished in 1986 by Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, 345 Hudson St., New York City, NY 10014). The Golden Goblet (published in 1961 by Coward McCann Inc.

Language level: 1 (nothing objectionable)įor more information e-mail Eloise Jarvis. Publisher: Penguin Group USA, reprinted in 1986

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