Customer Reviews

The Busy Body Book: A Kid's Guide to Fitness (Booklist Editor's Choice. Books for Youth (Awards))

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This is a great book that introduces many different systems in the body while emphasizing that keeping active is so important for your body to work better. Using your muscles makes them stronger instead of wearing them out it tells us. The illustrations are detailed and colorful and the book is fun, overall, with an important underlying message to encourage children to stay busy and healthy.

i brought this to my 2nd grader's class and read it to them as a group and it was perfect. Really great for this age group. They ate it up.

What a super book. It is kid friendly and makes learning about our bodies fun. The pictures and wording are both age appropriate. My grandsons (ages 3 & $) are both gaining from the book and love to see what happens to their food. It also has a great message to keep your body moving (that thing called exercise). Kudos to the author!

Filled with lively illustrations of kids of all ethnicities, sizes and abilities happily engaged in physical activity, this book is a geared for the pre-school/early elementary school crowd. Rockwell brings the workings of the human body down to a youngster's comprehension and vocabulary level without dumbing down the concepts. For example, when describing how the brain and nervous system work, she writes, "Messages travel back and forth, at lightning speed, along wire-thin fibers called nerves." That truly is it in a nutshell, right?!

As a former teacher I also appreciate the inclusion of diagrams throughout the book. Well labeled diagrams of the systems of the body (skeletal, muscular, nervous, respiratory, circulatory and digestive) enhance the main content of the book. The earlier kids get accustomed to reading diagrams, the stronger their reading comprehension skills will be - think about how often we have to read diagrams in our daily lives.

The Busy Body Book is a fun resource for teachers to use in their classrooms for units about the body and for lessons about how to read diagrams. Families will enjoy sharing the book before heading outdoors for a physical adventure.

I think the concept of the book and its intent are great. Kids learn from the stuff they see on the screen and in books, so what better way to convey the message of health and what makes our bodies strong.

So I have to ask, what in the heck was the author thinking by having the kid sitting on the bench with his headphones on eating a bag of CHIPS on not 1, but 3 pages in the book. Seriously? I was hoping there would be some kind of statement made on how that wasn't a great choice (and it does later touch on good nutrition) but it never does go back and point out the poor choice.

Otherwise this would be a 5 star rating. Still good, but not great.

This is a good book for teaching kids how the body works. From muscles to bones to heart to brain. It breaks it down in easy to understand language for any age. I taught a lot of it to my preschool age children. It is a good reference book to refer back to.

wonderful book. explains the entire body, being active, etc. in a easy to understand way for the children.

We haven't purchased this yet, but it's going on the kids' Christmas list. We borrowed it from the library and my 4 yr. boy and 2 1/2 yr. girl are always wanting me to read it or are "reading" it themselves.

My children were starting to ask questions about what happens to their food when they eat it, discussing what muscles were, why we drink water, etc. This book covers a large topic but it a very interesting and kid friendly way. I borrowed quite a few from the library but this is the only one that both I and my kids enjoy.

Very well done!

This book was for my daughter-in-law who is a first grade teacher. Judging by her reaction, I believe that this is a good book for elementary aged children.