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The Way We Work: Getting To Know The Amazing Human Body (2008)

by David Macaulay(Favorite Author)

4.22 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0618233784 (ISBN13: 9780618233786)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

HMH Books for Young Readers

review 1: Junior Book LogInformationalRecommending Source: The Joy of Children's Literature p. 294Maccaulay's illustrations makes learning about how the human body works possible for children. As if looking through a high powered microscope and slowly zooming out, the book begins with a close look at atoms and molecules and eventually move on to the different systems of the body as well as reproduction. The illustrations are realistic, yet included in humorous settings (e.g. a cowboy riding the contracting stomach like a bull, red blood cells jumping into a plasma pool, and the rectum pouring feces into dump trucks). The reading level makes this book more appropriate for upper middle school and high school students, but with the guided assistance this book could work with even grade... mores fourth through sixth. I highly recommend this book to teachers, parents, and children who want to understand the human body.
review 2: Found this for a really good deal at the BYU Bookstore. I've been wanting it for a while because I have his other book "The (New) Way Things Work" and I enjoyed looking through that.These books are interesting as it's hard to pick out exactly who the audience is for these books. The copious illustrations indicate a younger reader, but the text and content is definitely for someone around a middle-school level at least.The illustrations for this book also seemed a little more rushed. That's understandable though--there are a lot of them.All in all I liked the book. I'd recommend it to anyone who wanted an overview of anatomy. less

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