Mummies are certainly tempting to touch, but that's not permitted in the museums where they're usually found. Hopping's interactive book not only allows but encourages young readers to touch — and learn all about — an Egyptian mummy. They learn how Egyptians buried and entombed their dead including the making of burial masks, giving amulets for an underworld journey, wrapping mummies from head to toe, preserving the body, and placing sacred organs in canopic jars. Hopping says: "Coming from the board-game business, I'm moth-like attracted to the concept of a toy-and-book combination product, and so ... I gladly tackled ... the history and science of mummies. One big upside to this format is instantly attracting both very young and older reluctant readers and holding their attention with cool plastic parts — a mummy model that reveals itself page by page."