In the eighth title in the Mysterious You series, go with the flow and learn all about blood and the circulatory system. Topics include what blood's made from, how it moves around our body, the role of the heart, and how our organs clean our blood. Discover that over your lifetime your heart will beat roughly 2.5 billion times, that by the time you're an adult your blood vessels will be long enough to reach around the earth -- twice! and that only about 60 people in the whole world have the rare K zero blood type.

 

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Kids Can Press .

Rose Cowles has been a freelance designer and illustrator since 1990. Her books for children include "Gilbert de la Frogponde," "Dog Tales," "I Know An Old Laddie" and "The Queen, the Bear and the Bumblebee. " Rose lives with her family in Victoria, BC. Trudee Romanek is a children's book editor and the author of The Technology Book for Girls and Other Advanced Beings. She has also written magazine and textbook articles for kids and adults. She lives in Barrie, Ontario. Rose Cowles has won awards for both illustration and design. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.