100 Things to Know About the Human Body

Usborne 100 Things to Know About...

by Alex Frith, Minna Lacey, Matthew Oldham

A fresh, new approach to anatomy and science about the human body. Pictorial info-graphics style illustrations provide easily digestible facts in bite-size chunks.

Genres: Nonfiction, Science, Childrens, Biology

128 pages, Flexibound

First published May 1, 2015

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

[Pairash Pleanmalai · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Koxox8118c · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book for facts about the human body

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of stuff I knew, lots of stuff I didn't. Infographic format.

I learned my heart pumps 39 bathtubs of blood per day.
I learned I have mites that live in the skin around my nose and eyelashes (could have lived without that one, actually).
I learned that while I function best with all of my organs in place, there is actually a lot of redundancy and can have medications to balance organ malfunction.

I learned more, but that's what I remember.

[Erika · Rating 5 out of 5]

I learned soooo much from this kids' book about the body. It blew me away! The most obscure fact for me was that Dr. Edward Jenner heard that milkmaids rarely got smallpox. They had all gotten a milder disease called cowpox. In 1790, he developed a cowpox inoculation that also prevented smallpox, because the two are so similar. He named this new treatment "vaccination" after the Latin word for cow--vacca

[Nichole Ostrander · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was a fascinating read. My kids love learning that the brain can not feel, that you can live with 1/2 a brain, and apparently your liver can grow back. The pictures are cute. This is a book to take at least 100 days to go though because it is so jammed packed with info, but treat it like a fact a day calendar and it is pretty fun!

[Landon Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this book interesting. I learned UP TO 30 TRILLION RED BLOOD CELLS PASS THROUGH YOUR HEART ONCE A MINUTE! People are gassier on planes and the way you eat your food changes the shape of your face.

The Pictures That help me with a topic, The pictures were colorful and It was attractive.

The book Made me want to learn more about the human body

[Naomi Benny · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very descriptive and easy to understand

[Angella McMurdie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a fun book to read and learn more about the way the body works. We loved all the facts and surprises in it

[Kadee · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked this book as there were a lot of interesting facts. Some took me by surprise and some really disgusted me, but it was a fun read.

[Maria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Отлична книга. Разбивает много стереотипов и неправильных представлений о человеческом организме. Читать с ребёнком - замечательно и увлекательно.

[Shivani · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun fantastical facts. Didn't know blondes have more hair on their heads!

[Đặng Trọng · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thông tin trực quan, hình minh hoạ vẽ ổn phết. Trẻ con đọc cũng được, người lớn đọc cũng quá hay 🤭

[Anastasiia Boichun · Rating 5 out of 5]

Гарна книга на подарунок дорослим діткам. Я особисто також отримала задоволення,прочитавши її. Адже нагадала собі багато того, що вивчала у школі.

[Ravi · Rating 5 out of 5]

wonderful illustrations and such an interesting read . was unable to focus on fiction so picked up it from library and finished it .

[Lauren Lees · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting, easy to access facts alongside bold engaging illustrations.

[Itsaso greengaze · Rating 5 out of 5]

En castellano: 100 cosas que saber sobre el cuerpo humano.

Más que un acercamiento al cuerpo humano. Al estar dirigido a niños pensaba que se ivá a quedar en conceptos muy sencillos, pero para nada. Va desde lo básico que debería saber la mayoría a cosas más complejas, además de curiosidades de la historia, nuevas tecnologías en la medicina... Contado de manera sencilla pero no me ha dado para nada la sensación de que solo esté escrito para los más pequeños, a gente más mayor también se le puede hacer útil si quiere conocer sobre el cuerpo que le va a acompañar toda la vida sin profundizar en libros más densos. Además las ilustraciones me han enamorado 😊 ¡Muy recomendable!

Liburu hau ustekabe ederra izan da. Umeentzako zela ikusi nuenean gauza oso sinplea izan zela pentsatu nuen, baina ez da horrela izan. Hainbat kontu aipatzen dira, ezagutu beharreko gauza errezenetatik prozesu konplezuagoetara, baita medikuntzaren historiari buruz eta gaur egun erabiltzen diren hainbat makina aipatuz. Oso ondo azalduta daude eta irudiak azalpena askoz argiagoa egiten dute modu ederrean. Adin guztietako pertsonei gomendatutako liburua 😊

[Megan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A favorite of my 9 year old and my 12 year old.