My Amazing Body: Helping Kids Understand Health, Hygiene, and Their Bodies

by Pat Thomas, Lesley Harker (Illustrator)

Are there children in your life who are thinking about their health and physical fitness? This book will help explain everything! It will explore the importance of a good diet and plenty of exercise and encourage kids to make positive decisions about caring for themselves. Kids discover that even healthy people get ill sometimes, but that our bodies show real grit and have special abilities to protect us and restore our health. Parents, teachers, and gift givers will The A First Look At series promotes positive interaction among children, parents, and teachers, and encourage kids to ask questions and confront social and emotional questions that sometimes present problems. Books feature appealing full-color illustrations on every page plus a page of advice to parents and teachers.

Genres: Health, Nonfiction, Childrens, Picture Books

32 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2001

About the author

There is more than one Pat Thomas in the Goodreads catalog. This entry focuses on Pat^Thomas, children's author.

Pat is a trained psychotherapist, naturopath and journalist. After working as a journalist and broadcaster in the USA, she now works in the field of child development and writes for various publications including 'Practical Parenting'.

Reviews

[Lacy]

This has some great information. I always get nervous reading informative books to a group of preschoolers, but the way this one was written in combination with it's captivating illustrations made it a breeze.

[Prabhat sharma]

My Amazing Body: A First Look at Health and Fitness by Pat Thomas, Hindi translation by Arvind Gupta- Children’s Illustrated Colour Picture Book- the book narrates the story of human body for awareness about fitness, hygiene, for children. Hygiene- brushing teeth, bath, fresh clothes, good diet, physical exercise is necessary for them. Book illustrates role of various parts of the body stomach, intestine is digesting the foo. One important point, the book illustrates that body has self-recovering mechanism against small ailments. This book features full-color illustrations on every page plus a page of advice to parents and teachers. I have read the Hindi language translation of this book.

[Rachel Collins]

Genre: Informational
Grade Level: K-2

I think this book was very well written and educational for young minds. I was very impressed by how well thought out and put together it was. I would read this to my own child. The illustrations help children understand and I would definitely recommend it.

[Alexa Poulter]

Informative, fun and engaging. Best for children of young age to learn basic information on the human body.

[S]

Ableist and fatphobic.

[Emily Sefcheck]

Kdg-2nd grade
Genre: Informational

This is another great book for young readers. Easy and straightforward, it offers students an understanding how their body functions. This would be appropriate to have in a lesson on health and wellbeing.