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A review by s_n_arly
Biology: Life as We Know It! [With Poster] by Simon Basher, Dan Green
5.0
Our son received this as a gift on his fourth birthday. It quickly became a favorite. It is essentially an introductory biology text book, broken down for much younger readers. It's divided into sections such as building blocks (covering red blood cells, white blood cells, mitochondria, DNA, RNA, etc), life (bacteria, virus, fungus, protists, etc) and body parts (eye, ear, lungs, liver, kidneys, etc). Each item gets a page's worth of simple yet accurate information on how it works and where you find it. It gave my son a better grasp of how his body works than I had prior to fifth grade.
While recommended for grades 3-8, the explanations and fun comic-style pictures make this accessible to a much younger audience. There may be things my son doesn't quite understand, but this has given him things to ponder and the vocabulary to ask the questions he needs to. It is still a bit beyond the two and a half year old, but she likes some of the simpler bits.
While recommended for grades 3-8, the explanations and fun comic-style pictures make this accessible to a much younger audience. There may be things my son doesn't quite understand, but this has given him things to ponder and the vocabulary to ask the questions he needs to. It is still a bit beyond the two and a half year old, but she likes some of the simpler bits.