Human Body Reference Book

by Alex Frith

What is blood for? What do muscles look like? How many bones does a body have? This book is packed with information about organs, bones, X-rays and scans, to help you build up a complete picture of the human body and how it works.

Genres: Childrens

32 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2013

About the author

Alex Frith has been a children's non-fiction author since 2005. Working exclusively for Usborne Publishing, he has written over 50 books covering almost any subject you can think of, from the origins of the Universe to the meaning behind world religions, from extinct animals to prototype AIs, and from Japanese legends to Norse mythology. Two of his books have been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young's People's Book Prize: See Inside Inventions (2012), and 100 Things to Know About Space (2017).

Alex grew up in a house surrounded by comics and graphic novels, and has a lifelong passion for the medium. Beyond the comics he photocopied and passed around the playground of his primary school, he wrote the 4-part series 'Digital Graffiti' with artist Gez Fry in 2003, and has had short story comics published in FutureQuake and the Asteroid Belter.

Reviews

[Kelly Gartland · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wonderfully laid out and explained in a way that makes sense to children and adults alike. The only downside is I felt it wasn't very consistent with the amount of information it gave you. Sometimes it was extremely in depth and then other times it fails to mention whole batches of information I know to be true of the human body. However a great resource all the same for teaching different ability level children how they exist