You and Your Body

Your body can do all sorts of incredible things. Your heart is constantly pumping blood. Your lungs are always breathing. And your brain controls it all!

Find out more details – like which is the largest muscle in the body or how your skin can repair a cut – in this fun and informative lift-the-flap book.  

Dr Punam Krishan is well known as a GP and her bite-size facts about how the body works will fascinate young readers. There are more than 90 flaps to open here, with further information and often an X-ray or ‘under the skin’ picture to show more detail. Lifting flaps is always irresistible, and these pages are made of sturdy board, meaning the book will be robust enough to withstand repeat reading and flap-opening.

There is a lot packed into only eight areas of focus, all of it pitched nicely at beginner readers in terms of content and word level. The enticing illustrations by Verónika Cháves Morales include a variety of cute children and clearly labelled diagrams of body parts, like lungs, bones and muscles.

A useful first look at how bodies work.