By Richard Walker
The inside of the human body in photographs, one topic per spread, in the standard white-background DK Eyewitness style.
It's the whole body laid out in spreads, and it goes everywhere: cells, skin, the skeleton, muscles pulling on bone, blood, the heart, the lungs, digestion, the brain and nerves, the eye, the ear, the immune system, and how a body grows from a baby to an adult. Each topic gets two facing pages of real photographs, micrographs, x-rays, and cutaway models on a white background, with short paragraphs and captions around them. There's a fold-out wall chart in the back. It's built to open anywhere and read in any order, a spread at a time.
When your child has worn out the funny body books and still wants more, this is where the real thing is, photographed: an actual cell, an actual x-ray, an actual cross-section. The spread-per-topic build is what makes it work for a child who won't sit through a chapter — two pages is a complete serving, and nothing is lost by skipping around. It's a book to dip into and keep for years, not one you read start to finish. Handed to a browser at bedtime, it turns into a stack of photographs to flick through.