Reviews for Human body
Horn Book
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Eye-punishingly busy spreads, including a random "twist it!" feature that requires readers to turn the book upside down, attempt to communicate facts about the human body and body systems. Pun-heavy captions and "Big Word Alert!" glossary entries plopped on the pages seem intended to downplay the subject's educational aspect. Still, reluctant readers may glean some information. Ind. (c) Copyright 2011. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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This volume in the Ripley's Twists series uses a chapter progression through human anatomy as an excuse to unleash the freakiest factoids at the author's disposal. An introduction increases the fun by calling attention to the book's various styles of sidebar: Big Word Alert! is exactly what it sounds like, and Twist It! requires turning the book on its end to absorb the miscellanea. De la Bedoyere gamely supplies some actual biological basics (the two-page spread of a skeleton is especially handy), but this is all about the exceptions to every rule: the student who can pop her eyes out, the woman with 33-inch fingernails, the man with the mental acuity to juggle chain saws. The book resembles something published by Guinness and will be similarly passed around so that kids can show their friends (or enemies, depending on the desired effect) pictures of full-body tattoos and metal-eating daredevils. The enclosed bookmarks and poster won't last long, but that won't stop this from fielding heavy traffic.--Kraus, Daniel Copyright 2009 Booklist
