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scarlettletters's review against another edition
4.0
So I've checked out a bunch of non-fiction kids' books in my quest to know a little bit about everything and while some people swear by Brad Rutter or Arthur Chu, I'll always remember my freshman year of college, actually making a point of watching Ken Jennings' epic run on Jeopardy!. I trust him to give me the info I need.
He delivers an overview of the basic systems of the human body with funny (to me) subtitles and illustrations and definitely presents the information in a way that (I think) I will be able to remember it. Rather than a wall of text, it's divided up into little chunks and bite-sized pieces of trivia. It's an incredibly superficial overview (this is meant for age probably 8-12) but honestly how many people do you know who know the difference between arteries and veins? I didn't! So I would say this was useful to me.
This is the first I've read from this series but I have another checked out and I think these are books I would have really liked as a kid. Heck, I like them now. I would caution parents though: if you have the kind of kid who wants to share with you every fun fact he/she learns, you might want to exercise caution, because every time I got to something cool (in ancient Egypt men peed sitting down and women peed standing up!) I just had to go tell Hunter.
He delivers an overview of the basic systems of the human body with funny (to me) subtitles and illustrations and definitely presents the information in a way that (I think) I will be able to remember it. Rather than a wall of text, it's divided up into little chunks and bite-sized pieces of trivia. It's an incredibly superficial overview (this is meant for age probably 8-12) but honestly how many people do you know who know the difference between arteries and veins? I didn't! So I would say this was useful to me.
This is the first I've read from this series but I have another checked out and I think these are books I would have really liked as a kid. Heck, I like them now. I would caution parents though: if you have the kind of kid who wants to share with you every fun fact he/she learns, you might want to exercise caution, because every time I got to something cool (in ancient Egypt men peed sitting down and women peed standing up!) I just had to go tell Hunter.
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