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Book

Amazing body

Call Number

  • J 612 BUTT (CEN, EAS, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, New York : Little Bee Books Inc, 2015.

Physical Description

64 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.

Summary

"Discover amazing facts about the human body! Have you ever wondered why you shiver in the cold? Why your blood is red? How long is the world's longest nose? Find out all this and more in this fascinating book, filled with hundreds of super stats about our own bodies!"--Page [4] cover.

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

  • Head start: the brain
  • Keeping it together: the skeleton
  • Power pullers: muscles
  • Liquid of life: blood
  • Your beat: the heart
  • In! Out!: breathing
  • Take a bite: the digestive system
  • Another bite: the digestive system continued
  • Smart food: healthy eating
  • Chew on this: our teeth
  • Say what?: vocal organs
  • Secret signals: glands and hormones
  • See this: all about the eye
  • Smells good: all about the nose
  • Sounds clever: all about the ear
  • Skin deep: all about the skin
  • That tickles!: how nerves work
  • Cute cuticles, fab follicles: nails and hair
  • Mini marvels: your cells
  • The recipe of you: your chromosomes
  • A human begins: being a baby
  • Hello, baby!: being a baby continued
  • Good growing: body growth
  • Feeling bad: all about illness
  • Enemy attackers: bacteria and viruses
  • Yucky critters: parasites and microbeasts
  • Body science: new science breakthroughs.

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