(You can listen to this episode here. Please note that it is not suitable for children due to discussion of violent incidents that take place in the book.)

On this episode, Mary Grace and Deborah discuss The Egypt Game, Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s 1967 Newbery Honor Book about a group of children in a California university town who create an elaborate game based on ancient Egypt.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Egypt Game: A Second Look, a 50-year retrospective published in The Horn Book in 2017

The 1967 Kirkus Review review of The Egypt Game

A 2011 post on the website Banned Reads Project where three teenagers give their perspectives on The Egypt Game

The ACLU’s list of The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot

Other Rereading Our Childhood episodes:

Rereading Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Rereading Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E.L. Konigsburg

Rereading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Rereading Half Magic by Edward Eager

Rereading The Owl Service by Alan Garner

Our Favorite Children’s Books from 50 Years Ago

Other books by Zilpha Keatley Snyder:

The Gypsy Game, the 1997 sequel to The Egypt Game

The Headless Cupid (1971), a Newbery Honor Book

The Witches of Worm (1972), a Newbery Honor Book

The Changeling (1970)

Eyes in the Fishbowl (1968)

Black and Blue Magic (1966)

Season of Ponies (1964)

Recommended for fans of The Egypt Game:

Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, by E.L. Konigsberg (1967 Newbery Honor Book)

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (1967 Newbery Medal winner)

Magic or Not? by Edward Eager

The Well-Wishers by Edward Eager

The podcast is hosted by Buzzsprout at rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com and is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other podcast platforms.

You can find Debby’s author interviews on her blog, Books Q&A by Deborah Kalb, and Mary Grace’s adventures in the 1920s on her blog, My Life 100 Years Ago.

This episode was edited by Adam Linder of Bespoken Podcasting.