See Inside Your Body

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.

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.

I gave this book to my 5 year old daughter for her birthday. I wasn't sure if she would get much out of it at first, since it seemed so advanced, and she's not reading yet. She loves it! The flaps keep her looking deeper for more information. The pictures illustrate well the parts of the body. And when she can get someone to sit down long enough to read this book to her, she actually memorizes the information so quickly and can tell us all about different body parts. She presses on her side and tells us how she feels her ribs. She talks about how lungs work. She talks about bones, muscles, and ears, and everything else. Even my sister, who is about to graduate from med school, was impressed with this book!

This book is PERFECT for any child who is curious about how the major organs of a human body work. It is simple to read and well laid out. It is my daughter's absolute favorite book right now. She took it to school for show and tell and shared her favorite pages (the breathing page and digestion page). Her classmates were fascinated. Her teacher even took me aside and shared how much the class liked the book- The children got wrapped up in deep discussions over all the organs and what they did... turning a simple show and tell into a real little lesson about the human body! I have just purchased another book (from Santa) to give to my daughter at Christmas, which is much more complex than this one... only b/c my daughter is asking questions like, "But I want to know why my skin itches sometimes."

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.