By Maris Wicks
A skeleton hosts a variety show about your insides, one body system per act.
A cheerful skeleton takes the stage as your host and puts on a whole show about the human body, one system at a time. Each act is a different part of you, the bones, the blood, the guts, the brain, and by the finale the skeleton has grown a full body, muscle and skin and all, as the show explains what everything does. It's stuffed with real anatomy and diagrams, but told with jokes and songs, so a child laughs their way through what is basically a science textbook.
Your child loves gross body facts but calls reading boring, and this is the book for them. It covers everything a school unit on the human body would, digestion, circulation, the nervous system, and does it with a funny skeleton emcee instead of dense paragraphs, so they actually finish all two hundred-plus pages. It's the rare science book long enough to feel like a real accomplishment while never once feeling like homework.