My Brilliant Body - Hardcover

Macdonald, Guy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0764161725 ISBN 13: 9780764161728

Publisher: B E S Pub Co, 2008

Synopsis

This amusing question-and-answer book will appeal to kids who are curious about the many amazing and bizarre facts related to the human body. That is to say, just about every boy and girl will want to browse through My Brilliant Body. They'll discover, for instance, that when they bite into their food, approximately 10,000 tiny taste buds in their mouth tell them whether they are eating something sweet, savory, sour, or just plain awful. They'll also learn interesting facts about the composition of their blood, the reason they feel pain when they're injured, how the body fights off deadly infections, and the body's smallest muscle. They'll also get answers to body-related questions like, where do the largest number of bathroom germs live? Approximately 200 amazing questions with remarkable answers are supplemented with black-and-while line art on most pages.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

(back cover)
My Brilliant Body
Can you answer these questions?

1. How many different smells can your nose detect?
(a) 1,000 (b) 5,000 (c) 10, 000

2. What makes your hair grow faster?
(a) Cold weather (b) Hot weather (c) Rainy weather

3. If you sneeze with your eyes wide open, your eyeballs will pop out.
(a) True (b) False

4. Which body organ is the largest?
(a) The lungs (b) The skin (c) The heart

5. How long does blood take to travel through your entire body?
(a) 3 minutes (b) 60 seconds (c) 15 minutes

Open this book and youÂ’ll find amazing answers to these and hundreds more questions. YouÂ’ll also learn how your body fights off infections, why you feel pain when youÂ’re hurt, which muscles are the strongest, which one is the smallest, and much more!

About the Author

Guy Macdonald was born in 1972. He grew up in a rambling old house surrounded by huge yew trees that he became very good at climbing. Across the fields was a river where he fished with string from a bamboo cane and made campfires. His greatest achievements of all time are: ripping a telephone directory in half, holding his breath for nearly two minutes underwater and whistling through a blade of grass. He has also co-written a series of children's fiction books called An Awfully Beastly Business about a werewolf boy who climbs trees, makes campfires and, given the chance, could almost certainly fold a single piece of paper at least seven times

About this edition

• Publisher: B E S Pub Co
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0764161725
• ISBN 13: 9780764161728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 127
• Illustrator: Cemmick Paul