Human Body: An Interactive Guide to the Inner Workings of the Body

Human Body: An Interactive Guide to the Inner Workings of the Body

Author: Steve Parker

ISBN: 0764160834

Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series, 2008

Age: 8 and up

Genre: Non-fiction

Summary: This book is an interactive tour through the world’s most complicated machine—the human body.  Discover through the written text, ingenious pop-ups, pull tabs, cross sections, flaps, specialist photography, and insights all about the amazing and complex body.  Discover why bones are stronger than steel, follow the journey blood makes around your body, and learn how the brain controls everything you think, feel, and do. 

Read A-likes: Alive: The Living, Breathing Human Body Book; Voyage Through Space: An Interactive Journey Through the Solar System and Beyond; and The Human Body Book.

Personal Thoughts: There are a lot of books published about the human body, but this one is an amazing compilation of actual pictures, pop-ups, flaps and other fun and interactive tools.  A fun and engaging way to teach children about the human body or just a fun book to pick up and browse through.  I really enjoyed the inclusion of the actual pictures from high powered microscopes, it made it much more real, rather than just computer generated pictures.