See Inside Your Body [Board book]

Katie Daynes (Author), Colin King (Author), Carrie Armstrong (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2006 | Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up | Series: See Inside Your Body

Follow your food as it travels through your body. Take a deep breath and explore your lungs. Let your mind boggle at what your brain can do. This exciting book, packed with lively illustrations and fascinating flaps, is bursting to reveal your body's amazing secrets. 16 pages.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Board book: 14 pages
• Publisher: Usborne Pub Ltd (January 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 079451233X
• ISBN-13: 978-0794512330
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,950 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #3 in Books > Children's Books > Science, Nature & How It Works > Anatomy & Physiology

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If your cherub loves facts, July 9, 2006

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Siddy Fox "Grandma" (Grayslake, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: See Inside Your Body (Board book)

I was looking for a first body book with clear plastic pages to show body organs, and my local book store special ordered this book instead. Boy were we lucky! No plastic pages, but 7 beautifully designed cardboard pages with lift up flaps. As a Biologist, I love this book! It uses lots of correct terms like villi and alveoli, and some reasonablle ones like spit and windpipe. The pictures really give a sense of what goes where, and how things work. Each page covers an entire system such as eating and excreting, or bones and muscles.

Not every 4 year old will enjoy this book. But if yours is like ours and absorbs facts about dinosaurs and begs for nature shows instead of Barney, this hits the jackpot.

And the kicker is, it even has sturdy lift up flaps with additional facts. This lets even our 2 1/2 year old interact. He had such fun when we did muscles (they can only pull, never push - squeeze the biceps gently and lift the upper arm, squeeze the triceps and lower it) he showed big sister and she ran in to do that page herself.

It does help if you add your own words and interactions to the book's, especially for young children. But if you have a compulsive learner at home, this book will not insult his or her intelligence, while providing a grand and accurate first look inside.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic resource, March 12, 2009

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J. Rush (Rochester, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: See Inside Your Body (Board book)

I scoured the local library for a good beginner book on anatomy to introduce my 3 year old to how her body works. I wanted accuracy and great pictures. It is a great library, but the options just weren't there. The available books were either too simple or too wordy, and none of them had stellar illustrations. This book by Usborne is amazing! I think I have even learned a thing or two, and my 3 year old LOVES it. For that matter, so does her 2 year old sister. Who would have guessed that this would make anatomy so interesting. A word of caution, though. This book takes FOREVER to read (30 min++)! I am very impressed with the details in this book and the fact that it thoroughly explains such things as digestion, the cardiovascular system, the nervous system, the pulmonary system (lungs), and the bones, muscles, and 5 senses without getting boring.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Four-year old LOVES this book, November 1, 2009

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E. Peters - See all my reviews
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We are an Usborne family and this is my son's favorite book hands down! He is so interested in learning how things work, why they work and the small details of EVERYTHING. He is simply intrigued with the human body and how it functions. This books is amazing, great explinations, easy to read and understand and best of all the flaps are sturdy. My son has learned so much and spouts off how the kidney and other organs work to people he meets, it's really quite comical.

I would reccomend it to any child and any reading level.