Ma' At's Feather. This item is unavailable.Ma' At's Feather

As a young boy born to a farming family in ancient Egypt, Qen's future seems to be mapped out for him. He wants nothing more than to join his father and older brother planting and harvesting the fertile land on the floodplain of the river Nile, and to be selected as part of the team helping to build a great temple. Fate, however, has other things in store for the boy. His older brother, Amenopet, wants more from life. He dreams of a life of luxury, and sees Qen as his means of obtaining just that, involving Qen in an adventure he would much rather avoid. Ancient Egypt and its people's belief in an afterlife to which fabulous riches could be taken are brilliantly portrayed in this heart-wrenching tale of an innocent youngster whose life is thrown off-course with terrible consequences.

Juliet Desailly is a long-time resident of south London, and her background is in primary education and writing educational material. Although she started out teaching drama, English, and music in secondary schools and has also been involved in theatre companies, since the mid-1980s she has mainly taught in primary schools and has also run training courses and worked in an advisory capacity within the field of education. From 2001 to 2004, she was deputy head of a Sydenham primary school, and since then she has been a freelance educational consultant and part-time lecturer at London University's Institute of Education. She has written a large amount of educational material, including teachers' notes for a television music programme, two series of Infant History for BBC Radio, and materials for the current DCSF's 'Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning' (SEAL) resource.