Blood

This volume looks at your heart, lungs and blood vessels to find out how and why your blood keeps flowing. It is aimed at children between the ages of five and ten.

Grade 2-4?This attractive book explains blood and the circulatory system. The text is simply written and easy to understand, using everyday analogies. The full-color illustrations, a combination of drawings and photographs, are plentiful. Diagrams of organs are superimposed on photos of dressed children. A few simple experiments are suggested: finding a pulse, listening to a friend's heart beat. A rudimentary glossary and index are included. This book covers the same territory as Leslie Jean LeMaster's Your Heart and Blood (Childrens, 1984), but is more direct and understandable, with a better relationship between text and illustration. It is also more scientific and informative than Paul Showers's A Drop of Blood (HarperCollins, 1989).?Martha Gordon, formerly at South Salem Library, NY
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