| Stickmen's Guide to Your Beating Heart Contributor(s): Farndon, John (Author), Dean, Venitia (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1512432156 ISBN-13: 9781512432152 Publisher: Hungry Tomato (R) OUR PRICE: $26.59 Product Type: Library Binding - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature - Biology |
| Dewey: 612.17 |
| LCCN: 2016046941 |
| Lexile Measure: 1010 |
| Series: Stickmen's Guides to Your Awesome Body |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 7.2" W x 9" (0.50 lbs) 32 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ba-boom, ba-boom, ba-boom . . . your incredible heart beats more than once every second, no matter what you're doing. And your lungs pull in up to 145 gallons of oxygen each day. So how are your heart and lungs connected, and what do they do? Join the Stickmen as they explore your body to find out how your heart pumps blood, how oxygen travels through your body, and how your body fights off germs. You'll discover why you need two trillion red blood cells, how exercise affects the body, and what exactly is inside your lungs. Colorful diagrams and fascinating text show how your circulatory system works to keep you fit, warm, and alive |
Contributor Bio(s): Dean, Venitia: - Venitia Dean is a freelance illustrator who grew up in Brighton, UK. She has always loved drawing, ever since she could hold a pencil! As a teenager, she discovered a passion for figurative illustration, and then when she turned nineteen she was given a digital drawing tablet for her birthday and started transferring her work to the computer. She hasn't looked back since! As well as illustration, Venitia loves reading graphic novels and walking her dog, Peanut. Farndon, John: -John Farndon is Royal Literary Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK, and the author of a huge number of books for adults and children on science, technology, and nature. |