THE ABCs OF MY BODY (TM) (BOOK 1 EXTERNAL)

The ABCs OF MY BODY (TM) BOOK 1, EXTERNAL) is an opportunity to share with you our experience of teaching our baby, names of her external body parts. We would touch our nose, mouth, eyes and other body parts, naming them and touching our baby’s similar parts, repeating the names. This became a fun game that led to the idea of developing a simpler way to make her remember. When we started teaching our baby the alphabet; A is for “Antelope”, B is for “Basket”…, we came up with the idea to link all parts of the body to ABCs. We decided to document this experience in a book and asked Thomas Petiet if he would be interested in illustrating a book with this theme. He showed great enthusiasm and went to work right away. His love of art and personal experience as a father and grandfather are displayed in this book. We are thankful for his encouragement, artistry, arrangement, patience, sacrifice and other contributions to the production of this book. This book is also intended to teach the alphabets; A, B, C, D…. (a, b, c, d…).It is our hope that this format of teaching the Human Body parts in artistic form and inserting their functions and questions for conversation, would stimulate greater interest in children’s learning of their unique bodies. We would encourage parents, grandparents, family members, teachers and others to engage with children and use this book as a teaching tool for kids. Children would be enriched by the detailed knowledge of their body parts and functions. This book is also intended to teach the alphabets; A, B, C, D….(a,b,c,d,,). Some letters do not have words for external body parts in English. In such cases, we have indicated fun words such as “O”- Oof!, or “Z”- Zzz. There are equivalent words in other languages such as Ohr (ear in German), Zhou (elbow in Chinese), Visage (face in French), Zahn (tooth in German), Xigai (knee in Chinese). We have intentionally left out the illustration of external male and female reproductive body parts in the main body of the book. Parents can introduce these words to their children at their discretion and as appropriate. This book is the first in the series of books, ‘The ABCs of My Body ™. Other booksIn the series would be “The ABCs of My Body Internal,” Digestive system, Muscular system, Nervous system, Skeletal; bones, cartilage, Head /Brain, spinal cord, Respiratory System, Heart and Internal organs, Blood & blood