Good grief! There are tiny workers crawling around in our bodies! Or at least there are in Stephen Biesty's incredibly detailed anatomical cross sections of everything from the circulatory system to the human brain. The little people are there to show you how things work: the tiny tunnellers represent blood, hormones, the immune system, nerves, muscles, and organ "home teams."" As they cavort around the exquisitely intricate drawings, Richard Platt, a most charming companion, accompanies us on our journey through the body's systems--into the ear, for example: Feeling our way along a shiny bundle of nerve fibres, we squeezed through a small, circular hole where the fibres branched. Should we take the left or right fork? We flipped a coin and chose the left. It led to a narrow tunnel, like the inside of a seashell....Only one part of Steve's body looked like this: the inner ear. One of the best body system cross sections is the huge centrefold exposing the inner workings of the digestive system from mouth to...end. Then again, there's the fascinating-yet- disgusting rolled back tongue, the awesome opened-up eye, and the sliced skeleton--12 big drawings in all. Take a trip through Stephen Biesty's Incredible Body and have fun while you learn. (Ages 9 to 12) -- Amazon.com "

 

This book was recognised by the Rhone Poulenc Science Books Award.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 1998 by Dorling Kindersley Ltd .

Stephen Biesty (Author) Stephen Biesty has been illustrating since 1985. He has won several prestigious awards, including the New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award (1993) and the UK Literary Association Children's Book Award (2005). He is the author the best-selling Giant Vehicles and To the Rescue. Richard Platt is a renowned non-fiction writer, whose previous titles include Pirate Diary which won the 2002 Kate Greenaway Medal. To visit Richard's website click here