Ultimate Bodypedia

An Amazing Inside-Out Tour of the Human Body

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Hardcover
$24.99 US
On sale Oct 14, 2014 | 272 Pages | 9781426317217
This fun, smart guide to the human body answers kids' questions and engages them with amazing facts, photos, illustrations, and diagrams. The kid-friendly journey travels through the body and all its systems and is sprinkled throughout with plenty of health tips, top 10 lists, simple experiments, and weird-but-true wacky details. Young readers will learn about age-appropriate medical history and body basics, from cells and DNA to growth and aging.
PATRICIA DANIELS has been an author and editor for National Geographic. She has written and edited books on history, science, and geography for both children and adults and was an author for National Geographic's Body: The Complete Human. Patricia lives in State College, Pennsylvania. 

CHRISTINA WILSDON grew up on Long Island in New York. She has written numerous kids books about animals and science. Christina lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest, where bald eagles nest in the city and orcas surface just offshore. This is Christina's first book with National Geogrpahic. Visit Christina's website at http://christinawilsdon.blogspot.com/.

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This fun, smart guide to the human body answers kids' questions and engages them with amazing facts, photos, illustrations, and diagrams. The kid-friendly journey travels through the body and all its systems and is sprinkled throughout with plenty of health tips, top 10 lists, simple experiments, and weird-but-true wacky details. Young readers will learn about age-appropriate medical history and body basics, from cells and DNA to growth and aging.

Author

PATRICIA DANIELS has been an author and editor for National Geographic. She has written and edited books on history, science, and geography for both children and adults and was an author for National Geographic's Body: The Complete Human. Patricia lives in State College, Pennsylvania. 

CHRISTINA WILSDON grew up on Long Island in New York. She has written numerous kids books about animals and science. Christina lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest, where bald eagles nest in the city and orcas surface just offshore. This is Christina's first book with National Geogrpahic. Visit Christina's website at http://christinawilsdon.blogspot.com/.

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Educator Guide for Ultimate Bodypedia

Classroom-based guides appropriate for schools and colleges provide pre-reading and classroom activities, discussion questions connected to the curriculum, further reading, and resources.

(Please note: the guide displayed here is the most recently uploaded version; while unlikely, any page citation discrepancies between the guide and book is likely due to pagination differences between a book’s different formats.)

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