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Why Don't Haircuts Hurt?: Questions and Answers about Your Body
The answers to questions like "What makes blood red?" and "How much food do you ear each year?" help children understand how the human body works.
Paperback, 48 pages
Published
November 28th 1999
by Scholastic
(first published August 1st 1999)
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cross section of the skin
The skin has two layers; the skin about 20 square feet in an adult. if you could lay it out flat, the skin would be big enough to cover your whole bed. The top layers of the epidermis are dead cells. The epidermis is about as a sheet of paper. The far from skin inside have 50,000 tiny bits of dead skin cells fall off every minute. By the time you reach age 70, you'll have shed 40 pounds (18kg) of dead skin.
The skin has two layers; the skin about 20 square feet in an adult. if you could lay it out flat, the skin would be big enough to cover your whole bed. The top layers of the epidermis are dead cells. The epidermis is about as a sheet of paper. The far from skin inside have 50,000 tiny bits of dead skin cells fall off every minute. By the time you reach age 70, you'll have shed 40 pounds (18kg) of dead skin.
My scientist child loved this book. One of the better non-fiction human body books we checked out, in a question format.
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