Opening the Mouth of the Dead by Sandy Tilcock and Catherine WoodardThe central character in this book by Catherine Woodard is a third grade girl growing up in 1960s North Carolina who uses the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead to navigate her complicated relationship with her father. Alive he sometimes seems as dead as a mummy. It is a story told in poems. The 20 poems in the book art edition were selected from the 64 comprising the paperback edition. Tilcock tells us, This limited edition book is another