Ricky’s Dream Trip to the Ancient Worlds of Egypt, Greece and Rome
Childrens Books
Date Published: November 1, 2022
Publisher: Micro Publishing Media Inc
This is a combination of three award-winning Ricky’s Dream Trip books now in one volume with added information for classroom use and at-home activities.
Ricky travels to the Ancient world through his dreams with his pop pop by his side. In Egypt, the land of the Pharaohs and pyramids he meets the boy prince, Tutankhamen, in a search for a beloved missing pet. Immerse yourself in the culture of Ancient Egypt with this terrific adventure.
Next Ricky and Pop Pop meet Aristotle as they visit the land of the Ancient Olympics, see the temple of Athena, and help Alexander the Great!
In the third time-bending dream trip adventure to Ancient Rome the fate of Julius Caesar, one of Rome’s greatest leaders, hangs in the balance.
It is up to Ricky to confront his own fears and change the course of history.
Julie’s Review
Thanks to RABTBookTours for providing this book for my review during the tour.
The first story is about a dream trip to Ancient Egypt, to help a young pharaoh cheer up. This book does a fun take on showing kids what Ancient Egypt was like, via a dream the kid has about adventures with his grandfather. I love the special bond they have, that manifests in his dreams of adventures.
As a child, I absolutely was obsessed with Ancient Egypt. It was my favorite subject in school and I grabbed many books on it from the library. I can’t recall the exact age I was, but likely around the age of our main character.
I liked how we get to visit a variety of locations with our new friends, all while searching for a missing beloved pet cat. Of course it’s a cat, it’s Egypt after all. At the end we get a surprise.
The next story takes us to Ancient Greece, where our main character gets to participate in the original Olympics. Though the rest of the story was a bit farfetched as they were going to search for Alexander the Great on the battlefield, and then stopped to teach Alexander to play a musical instrument. That part felt kind of silly. But I liked the horse race part of the Olympics and the similar story to Alexander’s horse.
The final story in this collection was the dream trip to Ancient Rome. Here we get to experience a bit of Julius Caesar history that I didn’t know about.
I liked the illustrations, as unique as they are. We have a backdrop of the Ancient lands, and the characters are almost like paper doll puppets, separate from the background. While the paper doll doddles are simple, they are also quite cute and interesting to look at. The backdrops themselves also seem to be layered paper and the imagery is representative of their times.
I liked and both disliked how often the grandfather reminded Ricky this was all his dream and he could do whatever he wanted. That’s not quite how dreams work, as we have little control of what we dream about in our sleep. But that kept taking me out of the experience.
In general the writing style was simple, and easy to follow, but maybe at a lower level than 12 year old. In fact, I just got our 3rd grader’s school syllabus and he will be learning about all 3 of these Ancient lands! So maybe it is more fitting for a 3rd grader, but reading about a slightly older child to look up to. I’m going to try to read this with my 8 year old next.
I also didn’t like how the names were in a smaller and harder to read font than the rest of the text. It seemed like a strange choice, and kind of abrupt.
I did like how the book goes past the dream story and teaches important facts – like the pages showing hieroglyphics and even the activities and puzzles to solve. There are even maps of the Ancient lands.
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Thank you for sharing your review of Ricky’s Dream Trip to the Ancient Worlds of Egypt, Greece and Rome, this sounds like a wonderful book to read with my grandchildren and I am looking forward to doing so