Complete Book of the Human Body

Usborne Complete Books

by Anna Claybourne, Felicity Brooks

Text and illustrations offer a detailed look at human anatomy and physiology, with Internet links for further information.

Genres: Science, Childrens, Nonfiction, Biology, Reference

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Freelance children’s writer and editor, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Anna Claybourne writes children's information books on all kinds of topics: science experiments, ancient history, the human body, things to make, the environment, robots, evolution, art, fashion, Shakespeare and many more - as well as retellings of myths, legends and Shakespeare plays, and rhyming stories.

She studied English literature at university, but has always been interested in science, technology and art and design as well. She loves making and crafting, especially sewing, and her house is full of fabrics, craft materials, tools and books. Other interests and passions include camping, cats, outdoor swimming, news and politics, and music - she plays the trombone and has played in many different bands and orchestras, including performing live on a John Peel session in 2002 with Scottish band Ballboy.

Anna was born and grew up in Yorkshire, but has also lived in Canada as a student, Iceland as an au pair, and Costa Rica as a conservation volunteer, where she saw tarantulas, tapirs, monkeys, sloths, crocodiles and giant katydids. She now lives in Edinburgh with her two children and two cats, Skye and Socks.

Reviews

[Sandra Deaconu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Știați că e imposibil să strănuți cu ochii deschiși? Dimineața suntem mai înalți cu aproximativ 8 mm pentru că, în timpul zilei, cartilajele se strâng din cauza gravitației. Avem suficient fier în organism pentru a face un cui de 2,5 cm. Zilnic mor mai mult de două miliarde de celule, care sunt înlocuite, însă celulele creierului nu au acest noroc și pierdem cca 10 mii/zi dintre ele. Pielea reprezintă între 8 și 10% din greutatea corpului. Dacă articulațiile nu ar fi lubrifiate de lichidul sinovial, am scârțâi. Astea-s doar câteva dintre informațiile pe care le-am descoperit aici.

La final veți găsi și un glosar care cuprinde peste 100 de cuvinte și expresii legate de corpul uman, diverse activități și experimente, informații despre recorduri mondiale și descoperiri din istoria medicinei și a științei corpului, precum și despre cei care le-au realizat. Foarte cuprinzătoare și educativă această carte; ar fi un manual auxiliar perfect. Recenzia aici: https://bit.ly/3g1EucK.

[Leslie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book does contain amazingly bright, clear, and detailed images. All of the information is presented in little snippets. If you love little snippets, you will probably love this book more than I did. Facts are given, but not necessarily much in the way of explanations. I prefer my information with more depth. Also, my background is in health care. I found that some of the information in my area of expertise is not quite accurate, which left me wondering if some of the information in areas I am not as familiar with is inaccurate also.

[Luca Quadrani · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love it (:

[Rebecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Usborne books are great for science.

[Sarah Kochert · Rating 3 out of 5]

read, used for human body studies with child

[Aayush Rajaram Mhadgut · Rating 5 out of 5]

Human body

[Sarah Thornton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick refresher on human biology, a subject I don't remember from school ahead of a much more daunting book.

[Selma Bendaoud · Rating 4 out of 5]

This month I read “The Usborne Complete book Of the Human Body” by Anna Claybourne. This book is a science non-fiction book about the Human body. The book has different parts like body building block, muscles and bone, skin - hair and nails, the brain and the senses, breathing and circulation, eating and drinking, health and medicine, body changes and finally facts and figures. It mostly talks about how your body works and what is inside you. I learned a lot of facts from this book and they are all really interesting. For example, they are 200 different types of human cells and the brain cells are usually not replaced when they die, up to 10,000 of them die each day. They also talk about the bones that are in your body and how big they are.The biggest, heaviest and longest bone is the femur, in some men, it can grow up to 60cm long. The smallest bone in the body is the stapes or stirrup bone in the ear and it is less than 4mm long. They also write about how hair and nails grow. Hair grows at an average of 10 mm per month, wow this is really not a lot. Fingernail grow 2mm in a month and toenails grow even slower but both types of nails grow faster in hot weather. They also talk about the particles and the cells in the skin. Skin is the biggest of all your organs and Skin cells are mostly made of a tough protein called keratin. About 40 million dead skin cells fall from you each day and Skin makes up to 10% of your whole body’s weight. They always say too much sunlight is bad because too much sunlight can cause skin cancer. They also write a lot about hair and nails. Hair, fingernails, and toenails are made out of keratin, just like skin. Every day hundreds of hairs fall out and needs to start growing again. The part of the nail you see is dead and the part under your skin is living, this is really strange. They also discuss a lot about your brain and what you detect. Your brain makes up only 2% of your body’s weight. Wow, this is an amazing fact. The human brain can make 20 million billion calculations per second. A normal human can detect approximately 4,000 different smells and 10,000 different colors. They explain a little bit about food and the Digestive System. It takes food up to three days to complete its journey all the way through the Digestive System and an adult’s digestive system is 9 meters long. An average person takes in about 2 kg of food every day, so in your lifetime, you will probably consume over 50,000kg of food which is equivalent to eating 10 elephants.


The topic of this book is important because you need to know what is inside you. It is really important to know what is happening inside your body. You need to know how it works because it is a part of science and probably it is the most important science. If I could change this book’s title I would change it to “What is inside you” because the book talks about your body and what is inside your body. I think it is perfect because they mostly talk about the inside of your body. I’m going to write an acrostic poem with human:
Human
Unique
Male or female
Adult or child
Not a robot

I recommend this book from 5th grade to 8th grade because it is really explanative and perfect for middle school or for pre-middle school. My favorite part was when they talked about skin, hair and nails and also when they talked about eating and drinking. I found a lot of interesting facts in this book and I learned a lot of new things from it. I did not have a least favorite part because I found everything very interesting.

[Laura Caison · Rating 5 out of 5]

Informational Text
The Usborne Complete Book of the Human Body sets the gold standard in informational texts. The editors, designers and artists have crafted a magnificent book which would engage any student, even if science is his or her lest favorite subject. The illustrations, starting on the front cover, immediately grab the reader’s attention. They are vivid and detailed, ranging from relevant photographs and diagrams to enlarged microscope and x-ray images. (The editors do qualify the images explaining that extra color was added to make them clearer so they do not always show the real colors of the human body.) No space is wasted as an image often serves as a backdrop for a whole page. The text, written on roughly a fourth or fifth grade level is friendly and clear, giving simple, but accurate, explanations. Kid engaging features include: “amazing” facts and records, internet links and experiments and activities, like testing reaction time and fooling the brain with optical illusions.

This text would serve as a wonderful supplemental resource for a unit study of the human body in several ways. For example, since the North Carolina Essential Standards often have a grade specific focus, like skin in second grade, a teacher could quickly turn to that chapter and incorporate its information in a lesson plan. Younger students would be particularly captivated by the pictures sparking an initial interest in life science. Older students could use this book to locate and identify text features like table of contents, diagrams, photographs, glossary, timeline, index, charts/tables, headings, captions and types of print. Moreover, using a Reading Informational Text Bookmark (Oczkus, p. 83) would help students clarify, monitor and evaluate their independent reading as this text is loaded with information.

The publisher obviously values not only supplying information to students, but also presenting it in a winsome manner. This text easily garners five stars because of the comprehensive learning experience it provides.

[Leichty Library]

Copies: 1

[Tammy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of good information and enjoyed the photos!

[Ria · Rating 2 out of 5]

I actually almost enjoyed this book until page 87. Then I absolutely HATED it.

[Maria · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good informational book about the human body and how the body works. How different kind of organs works together. Great book

[Myra Benedict · Rating 4 out of 5]

Science is fun and so is this book 😁

[Wasif · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow! How much all the cell and all the things moves in our body have purposes. Each one different yet very important.