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Body Talk
Pump It Up: Respiration and Circulation
Pump It Up takes a new look at the human body. Find out how your heart, lungs, and blood work together to keep you alive. This book will really make you think about your body and the amazing things that go on inside you every second. You'll never feel the same way about yourself! What's inside? Strange and interesting photos of the human body, Amazing facts and figures, Tips to find information that will help with homework. Find out inside: Where is your body's built-in air conditioner? What can clog up your lungs? What part of your heart can be replaced if it wears out?
48 pages, Library Binding
First published January 1, 2006
About the author
Steve Parker
1,339 books86 followersSteve Parker is a British science writer of children's and adult's books. He has written more than 300 titles and contributed to or edited another 150.
Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.
Parker's writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley's multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He has since worked for more than a dozen children's book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, Times Educational Information Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book Award.
Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.
Parker's writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley's multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He has since worked for more than a dozen children's book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, Times Educational Information Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book Award.
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June 1, 2017
All about #Breathing and #heart in this fascinating book. #YoungReaders #PictureBook #BookReview #ChildrensBooks #amreading #nonfiction
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