The Circulatory System

How is your heart like a bicycle pump? Find out on a guided tour of the human body in The Circulatory System. Comic-book-style illustrations along with easy-to-read text help young readers understand key concepts in human anatomy. Kids can follow cartoon red blood cells as they journey through arteries and veins to deliver oxygen and nutrients to the body. Cartoon guides help explain how the body maintains a constant temperature, why blood pressure is important, and how white blood cells help combat disease. With bright, colorful pages, World Books Building Blocks of Life Science helps make learning fun and easy for young students with a primary reading level of grades 3 through 5. Each book focuses on a particular organ system in the human body. Cartoon guides creatively pair humor with fact-filled text. They make even the most difficult topics in human anatomy easy to understand. Helpful glossaries and indexes in each volume direct students to the most important terms and topics. Help young learners in your life get aheadand have fun doing sowith World Books Building Blocks of Life Science!

Gr 5-8--The Silversteins cover the morphology and physiology of the circulatory and respiratory systems and discuss health problems that may affect these systems as well as advances in treatments for related diseases. Throughout both series entries, the authors focus on ways in which students can use their understanding of the human body and its functions to maintain good health. Each book includes a one-page timeline of important medical discoveries related to the system under consideration. Captioned full-color photographs and labeled diagrams clarify and extend the text. Related high-interest items, such as ``Why a Bruise Turns Black and Blue'' and ``TB: An Old Killer Returns,'' appear as boxed items. The texts are easy to read and comprehensive enough to serve as good basic introductions to the topics. However, there are no suggestions for further reading. The high quality of research and lively style of these well-known science writers make these well-organized presentations superior to similar titles. Two valuable additions.

Carolyn Angus, The Claremont Graduate School, CA

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