Inside your insides : a guide to the microbes that call you home
Publication Information
Toronto, ON : Kids Can Press, [2016]
Physical Description
36 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Summary
"...an informative and entertaining look at the good and the bad (and possibly a few ugly) microscopic organisms that live in you and on you."--Page [4] of cover.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
- Meet your microbiome!
- What are microbes?
- We are not alone
- The war against microbes
- The making of our microbiome
- Some of your microbes are bad guys
- And some of your microbes are good guys
- Your body is a world
- The skinny on skin microbes
- Take a deep breath
- In through the mouth
- And all the way through
- Microbes fighting microbes
- Down the toilet
- Save our microbes!