Eli and the Real, Live, Dead Mummy

Based on true events, this story relates the fictional encounter between a young patient at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children and Djetmattasankh, a 3000-year-old mummy.

In 2009, the mummy was sent from the Royal Ontario Museum’s Egyptian Display to the hospital, for scanning, under the supervision of Dr. Peter Lewin who was both a pediatrician and a paleopathologist.

In this creative re-imagining, hilarity results as a young patient tries to convince his parents that he did not imagine the mummy in the hospital!

Sam Fisher is the author of two acclaimed middle-grade novels, and an associate professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Judy Hilgemann is an illustrator living in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, and an Associate Member of the Federation of Canadian Artists. Eli and the Real Live Dead Mummy is her sixth children’s book.