Let's Look At Your Body! (Let's Look at Bodies)

Member Name: tb4ms

Product:	Let's Look at Bodies
Date:	29/12/08 (130 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great information book for young children

Disadvantages: None

This is a great non-fiction children's book which I have used with Reception aged children (4-5 year olds).

~ Style and Format ~

The book is a board book, thicker than usual pages that are great for little hands and for those of us buying the books as it is far more difficult for any little rips or tears in the pages to take place!

The book is full of great coloured photographs of children, with clear labels as to the different parts of the human body. It also contains questions for the reader to ponder and answer.

It has double page spreads and is full of information aimed at young children.

~ Content ~

The book begins with a double page spread, front photo and back photo of a young boy. The face, back, elbow, thigh, knee, leg etc are all clearly labelled.

The next focus is on the 'skin and bones'. It introduces children to the basic concept of a skeleton.

There is then a double page spread all about the mouth - talking, chewing, smiling and eating. Again the different parts of the mouth are labelled, e.g. teeth, lips and tongue.

The 'eyes' are then looked at, labeling the eyelashes, eyebrow, eyelid and even the pupil. It also looks at the need for some children to wear glasses. Questions such as 'Do you wear glasses?' and 'Do you sometimes cry?' are posed to the reader.

On the double page spread, set aside for the nose, the reader is asked if the things shown in the photos, smell nice or nasty, e.g. perfume, onion, pasta, cat food etc.
It also looks at a cat and a dog and how they use their noses to help them find food.

The ears are then talked about: 'You use your ears to listen to stories', 'Some people use a hearing aid to help their ears work better.'

Hands ~ The focus is on holding, touching and feeling things and all of the activities that your hands help you do from cooking, catching, painting to cutting and catching.
The different parts of the hand are labelled to include: palm, knuckle and wrist.
The concept that everyone has different fingerprints is also touched upon.

The double page which focuses on the arms and legs is very similar to that of the hands in the sense that it shows pictures of children participating in an activity such as kicking, hopping and throwing, all of which use your arms and legs.

Moving away from the human body, there are two pages that look at animal bodies to demonstrate how animals have different bodies to enable them to do different things, for example: A monkey's long tail helps it to balance, a frog has strong back legs to help it jump etc.

~ My Verdict ~

This is a great book for young children. It is written in a very child friendly basic way and sets the foundation for basic scientific knowledge.
When I first bought this, I assumed that it was a Dorling Kindersley book as it has a very similar look to it as some of the other DK children's books that I have bought over the years.
It is published by Hermes House / Anness Publishing Ltd and is of the same high quality as those produced by DK - a great learning resource for young children.

~ Price ~

ISBN: 1-843-09855-5, currently available from amazon from just 23p!

Summary: A great non-fiction book for young children about the human body.