By Sylvia Branzei
The real science of snot, scabs, and farts, from a science teacher who figured out that gross is the fastest way to get a child reading.
Sylvia Branzei taught science, and she noticed something handy. A child who won't open a schoolbook will happily read eighty pages about boogers, earwax, scabs, pus, vomit, bad breath, and farts, as long as nobody calls it homework. So she wrote exactly that. Every gross thing your body makes gets a real explanation of what it is and why you make it, with a cartoon on nearly every page. They come for the disgusting part and pick up the biology on the way.
It's aimed straight at the child who says they hate reading and hate science, and it gets past both. The science is real, accurate, and clearly explained, wrapped in the one package a seven-year-old can't resist. And because it's a book you dip into instead of a story you have to finish, a reluctant reader can knock out one gross page, feel like they won, and come back for another when they feel like it.