The Bright and Morning Star

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Binding slightly rolled; bookplate to front free end paper; else about very good(+) thus in very good(+) price-clipped jacket in archival mylar.. Octavo in illus red & yellow pictorial jacket; 239 pages 21 cm. The third volume of the author's trilogy, the 1st of which is The moon in the cloud; the second, The shadow on the sun. "In their search for a cure for their handicapped son a former Egyptian slave and his wife become involved in trying to prevent the overthrow of the King of Kemi." The third volume of the author's trilogy, the 1st of which is The Moon in the Cloud; the second, The Shadow on the Sun.

Histoires pour enfants. Children's stories. History. Juvenile works. Time: To 332 B.C. Geographic: Egypt -- History -- To 332 B.C. -- Juvenile fiction. Égypte -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 332 av. J.-C. -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse. Egypt. Young Adult. Children's stories in English, 1900-; Texts

"Rosemary Jeanne Harris (20 February 1923 - 14 October 2019) was a British author of children's fiction. She won the 1968 Carnegie Medal for British children's books. Harris was born in London in February 1923, the daughter of Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris and his wife, Barbara Daisy Kyrle Money. She attended school in Weymouth, and then studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the Chelsea School of Art and the Courtauld Institute. She served in the British Red Cross Nursing Auxiliary Westminster Division during World War II and subsequently worked as a picture restorer and as a reader for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. From 1970 to 1973 she reviewed children's books for The Times. For The Moon in the Cloud, published by Faber in 1968, Harris won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. The Moon was the first volume of a trilogy set in ancient Egypt, followed by The Shadow on the Sun (1970) and The Bright and Morning Star (1972). The book was also the basis for a 1978 episode of the BBC series Jackanory. Harris died on 14 October 2019, at the age of 96."-Wikipedia.