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Flip Flap Body Book (Flip Flaps)

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We purchased this book as part of our homeschool curriculum for our 5 and 3 year old boys. The 5 year old, in particular, is fascinated by this book and loves reading it with us. It is really helping him understand the basics of how his body works. It has a whole section (about 1/3 of the book) about how babies are made, but the information is very appropriate for young children and talks mostly about how the babies grow while in the mom's tummy. There is no mention of "how" the sperm from the man gets to where it could meet with the egg from the woman, which I think would have been more information than I would have been comfortable discussing at this point. Anyway, a great overview of the body and how it functions.

I bought this from Usborne for my daughter shortly before her 3rd birthday, while she was potty training. When it arrived, I thought it looked too advanced, but she spotted it and wanted me to read it. She loved it! She really enjoys flipping open the flaps and inspecting the pictures. And, best of all, this book really moved potty training along for us. My daughter had been refusing to use the potty for bm's until one day after we read this book. The "What Happens to Your Food?" section really demystified the process for her - after discussing that section, she exclaimed that she wanted to poop on the potty, and she's never looked back.

My 5 year-old LOVED this book. She learned so much from it and couldn't wait to open the flaps. I was a little thrown by the human reproduction part. I wasn't quite ready to introduce that much detail to my 5 yo but it can be done appropriately using this book.

My niece LOVED this book, but it has a section on reproduction without explaining exactly "how" the baby gets into Mom's body -- which quickly led her to ask that question. Her Mom had to explain things a little sooner than planned. Parents should be aware this content is included in case they aren't ready to introduce it to their pre-schoolers. Otherwise it's a great book.

Covers the digestive system, senses (nervous system), and an intro to how babies are made and grow inside a woman. (Deals with sperm and egg and wombs and that babies come out between a mom's legs, but does not get into the mechacnics of sex, or for that matter mention that penises and vaginas exist. This will probably invite questions from curious kids, but I've already explained it to my curious George anyway, so it didn't matter for me. If you are the super skittish type, you should get this book, because the younger you plant the idea in your kids that reproduction is normal and human, the easier it is to talk about it more in depth and on moral levels in the future. It kept my four year old boy's attention for the whole book. If you are a super literal science geek, you may not like that germs are pictured as fuzzy creatures with six arms and that the digestive system is repeatedly referred to as the "food tube," and the drawings show spigots in the stomach and intestines squirting digestive juices around. But, it does a good job communicating the idea of the different processes in simple language a child can understand. It would also be good for older children to read to themselves, because it is written at a simple reading level with lots of illustrations, labels, and little comic type drawings with dialogue. That fact makes it a little more challenging to read outloud, because you have to do a lot of pointing to show what you are reading. Overall, it lives up to its description.

We bought this book for our almost-4-year-old daughter, and she absolutely LOVES it. Sonlight home school curriculum listed it as part of their core for our daughter's age group. We actually do not use Sonlight exclusively. We use their suggestions to supplement our own customized curriculum. Anyway, this is a fantastic book for introducing human anatomy to a small child. Our DD now understands how her digestive system, nervous system, etc work, explained on her level. She loves for us to read it over and over. I can't find words to express how great this book is. Just get it. You won't be disappointed. And Amazon has the best price I found anywhere (Amazon beats Sonlight's prices on most books, btw).

My children ages 2 and 3 absolutely love this book! The pages are rather busy, but full of really good information and written in a such a way that even the youngest children can understand. My only warning would be to parents that don't want to expose their young children to "the birds and the bees" yet. There is a section specifically for how babies are made. It is very gently written and presented really well so I had no problem reading it too my children. We have spent several hours reading and talking about this book, my 3 y/o loves to tell us how her body works! We have all learned a lot from this book, highly recommend.

This book gives good, fairly basic explanations about the digestive system, the senses and how babies are born. My four-year old enjoyed it and learned a lot from it. You do need to be ready for more and deeper questions if your child is extra inquisitive -- especially for the how babies are born section, as they do not explain how the baby got in the mum's womb.

I use this as part of my homeschool curriculum, my 4 yr old daughter loves it & has learned so much from it. It talks about where babies come from & sperm & egg cells but not how it gets there if ya know what I mean b ut reguardless it may make some parents uncomfortable. I highly recommend it.

3 and 5yo have really enjoyed this.

3 sections - digestion, senses, gestation.

Flap to lift on each page.

Explains things clearly and simply, without lying (sometimes books try to simplify and they end up making things up to fill in the gaps).

Great book.