Description
Book SynopsisDiscover the human body in glorious technicolour!
With eye-grabbing diagrams and amazing facts, The Bright Body Book takes a vibrant look at the body's many systems: how they work and what role they each play in keeping us alive.
This colourful and fact-packed bumper book provides an accessible look at the human body through bright and bold graphics. With page-filling diagrams, a colour-blocking approach, and simple text and captions, The Bright Body Book presents the incredible scale and complexity of the human body in small, digestible chunks. As well as this, surprising statistics and close-up photos allow children ages 9+ to gain a deeper insight into the wonders of our bright and bold bodies.
This definitive resource is your one-stop shop and includes a look at the following areas of the body:
The brain and nervous system
The digestive system
The heart, lungs and blood
The reproductive system
The senses
The skeleton and muscles
Table of Contents
- 1: Your bright body
- 2: The skeleton and muscles
- 3: The skeleton
- 4: Growing bones
- 5: Inside bones
- 6: The skull and ribs
- 7: The spine
- 8: Joints
- 9: Bone breaks and diseases
- 10: Tendons and ligaments
- 11: The muscular system
- 12: Types of muscle
- 13: Muscles and movement
- 14: Facial muscles
- 15: Sprains and strains
- 16: The heart, lungs and blood
- 17: Around the body
- 18: The airways
- 19: The lungs
- 20: Inhale/exhale
- 21: Gas exchange
- 22: Sneezing and coughing
- 23: Respiratory illnesses
- 24: The heart
- 25: A healthy heart
- 26: Blood
- 27: Blood vessels
- 28: Blood groups
- 29: The immune system
- 30: The brain and nervous system
- 31: The brain
- 32: Neurones
- 33: Nerves
- 34: The spinal cord and nerves
- 35: Receptors
- 36: Seeing and hearing
- 37: Effectors
- 38: The limbic system
- 39: Unconscious actions
- 40: Memory
- 41: Conditions
- 42: The senses
- 43: The five senses
- 44: Sight
- 45: Looking around
- 46: Hearing
- 47: Different sounds
- 48: Taste
- 49: Smell
- 50: Touch
- 51: Sensing pain
- 52: Position and balance
- 53: Reacting to senses
- 54: Internal senses
- 55: Problems with senses
- 56: The digestive system
- 57: Your digestive system
- 58: The mouth
- 59: The oesophagus
- 60: The stomach
- 61: Vomiting
- 62: The liver and pancreas
- 63: The small intestine
- 64: The large intestine
- 65: Faeces
- 66: The urinary system
- 67: Digestive issues
- 68: Types of food
- 69: Vitamins and minerals
- 70: The reproductive system
- 71: Reproduction
- 72: Female reproductive organs
- 73: Male reproductive organs
- 74: Hormones and reproduction
- 75: Female puberty
- 76: The menstrual cycle
- 77: Male puberty
- 78: Creating sperm
- 79: Sexual reproduction and inheritance
- 80: Fertilisation
- 81: Pregnancy
- 82: Multiple births
- 83: Infertility
