Quarto ISBN 9781633223967 £9.99
This fascinating book is fun to read and provides weird facts about the human body. Each topic has a double page. The left side is a colourful, bold, humorous image and the right side has the text in two short paragraphs. Did you know that each foot can produce a cup of sweat a day? Or that your skin accounts for 16% of your body weight? Or that your brain can perform 38 quadrillion operations per second? Or that a sneeze can move at 100mph and sends irritants up to 200 feet? Or that you have tiny eight-legged, spiderlike creatures living on your faces? We learn why babies have big eyes, the purpose of snot, what causes brain freeze and why your fingers wrinkle when they have been in water for a long time. The approach is wacky but the book conveys a lot of information in a simple form. It surprises and delights, and creates an appreciation of the intricacies of the human body. Age range: 7–11.
Brenda Marshall, SATIPS Council
