Alive: The Living, Breathing Human Body Book

by Anita Ganeri, Iain Smyth

A novelty reference title combines high-tech features with informative and authoritative text to tour the human body, utilizing elements such as pop-ups, pull-tabs, sound chips, fiber optics, and see-through pages.

16 pages, Hardcover

Published October 1, 2007

About the author

Anita Ganeri is a highly experienced author of children’s information books, specialising in religion, India/Asia, multiculturalism, geography, biography and natural history. She became a freelance writer after working at Walker Books (as foreign rights manager) and Usborne Publishing (as an editor). Since then, she has written over 300 titles, including the best-selling Horrible Geography series for Scholastic. The series won the Geographical Association Silver Award in 1999 and was cited as being ‘an innovation that all geographers will applaud’. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society where she conducts most of her research for the books.

Reviews

[Josefina Bustos]

This book is a great reference for kids. The pop-ups and sound give it an extra dimension and make it more interesting to look at. The anatomy is shown in a way that captures interest. I would recommend this book for anyone.