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Overview
Why is it important tochew your food?
Can you guess how long it takes for food to travel through your body?
Could you possibly have twenty feet of small intestines?
Where does that bad-smelling gas come from?
Your digestive system is out of sight and out of mind — until things don't go right. Then you may wonder how these important organs work!
You'll find the answers in Seymour Simon's smooth, well-organized, and fascinating introduction to the digestive system. He explains how it works twenty-four hours a day, turning pizza, sandwiches, milk, and other food into energy and nutrients and waste. Striking photographs on every spread show how major organs including the stomach and intestines move food through your body, and how, eventually, waste is eliminated.
Guts takes the mystery out of something that happens to everyone, every day, while at the same time sharing a sense of wonder about the human body.
Synopsis
Why is it important tochew your food?
Can you guess how long it takes for food to travel through your body?
Could you possibly have twenty feet of small intestines?
Where does that bad-smelling gas come from?
Your digestive system is out of sight and out of mind — until things don't go right. Then you may wonder how these important organs work!
You'll find the answers in Seymour Simon's smooth, well-organized, and fascinating introduction to the digestive system. He explains how it works twenty-four hours a day, turning pizza, sandwiches, milk, and other food into energy and nutrients and waste. Striking photographs on every spread show how major organs including the stomach and intestines move food through your body, and how, eventually, waste is eliminated.
Guts takes the mystery out of something that happens to everyone, every day, while at the same time sharing a sense of wonder about the human body.
Cindy L. Carolan - Children's Literature
Just as a car uses gasoline, motor oil and other fluids, our bodies need water and food to operate. Generally, we put these things in our bodies and then forget about them. An amazing process is really just beginning with each bit of food, one that is examined in detail in this highly-educational and interesting book about the digestive system. So many questions posed by children are answered in a straightforward manner. For example, how is it that the hydrochloric acid, which is a gastric juice the helps to soften food, does not eat away the walls of our stomachs? The answer is that the stomach is lined with a coating of protective mucus that is replaced every three or four days. Each spread contains one page of text and one full page of photographs or illustrations, actual shots of the surface of the inside of a stomach, the esophagus covered in mucus and colored X-rays body parts such as the colon and the coiled-up loops of the small intestine. These representations are definitely for the science minded and not the fainthearted. The author has written more than 200 science books, many of which are award winning publications. Highly recommended. 2005, HarperCollins Publishers, and Ages 8 to 12.
Editorials
Children's Literature
Just as a car uses gasoline, motor oil and other fluids, our bodies need water and food to operate. Generally, we put these things in our bodies and then forget about them. An amazing process is really just beginning with each bit of food, one that is examined in detail in this highly-educational and interesting book about the digestive system. So many questions posed by children are answered in a straightforward manner. For example, how is it that the hydrochloric acid, which is a gastric juice the helps to soften food, does not eat away the walls of our stomachs? The answer is that the stomach is lined with a coating of protective mucus that is replaced every three or four days. Each spread contains one page of text and one full page of photographs or illustrations, actual shots of the surface of the inside of a stomach, the esophagus covered in mucus and colored X-rays body parts such as the colon and the coiled-up loops of the small intestine. These representations are definitely for the science minded and not the fainthearted. The author has written more than 200 science books, many of which are award winning publications. Highly recommended. 2005, HarperCollins Publishers, and Ages 8 to 12.—Cindy L. Carolan