By Lise Manniche
Historical Fiction
This the story about a prince that was born in Egypt. When he a born his father was told that the seven Hathor goddesses predicted that he would be killed by a crocodile or a snake or a dog. His father decided to put him in a house in the desert and keep him there so that nothing would happen to him. One day he saw a man with a dog and asked for a dog so his dad ordered to give him a puppy. later the prince got tired of being there and asked his father to let him go out and enjoy before meeting his fate. He went to Naharin and found out that the Chief of Naharin offered his daughter I marriage to anyone that could jump all the way up to her window where she was. The prince did but when he told the people that he was the son of a chariot officer the chief did not want hi to marry his daughter. Eventually the chief agreed. Once they were married The prince told his wife how he was to die and she started being very protective. She killed the snake that was supposed to kill him. One day when he went out of the castle his wife stayed home but the dog followed him and suddenly it turned on him. He ran into the lake where the crocodile was and the crocodile said he would spare his life if he helped him fight the giant who had been keeping him from killing him for a while. The prince fights the giant and kills him. suddenly the dog sneaked up on him and tore him to pieces. His wife picked up all the pieces and put them together but put his heart in a lotus flower that as blooming in the water. The prince reappeared as he had been before.
I am not sure that I would read this book in my classroom. If I did it would provably be to maybe fourth or fifth grade students. I would use it to help explain about mythical stories.
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