Stephen Biesty's Incredible Body Cross-Sections

Stephen Biesty's Incredible Body Cross-Sections

About the Book

How does the body protect itself from infections? What makes your tummy rumble? Are you taller at the beginning or end of the day?

This extraordinary book actually takes you inside - and around - the human body to see how it works, with the help of some truly unique illustrations and some very small people!

Explore your brain, your bones, and everything in between in incredible cross-section drawings of all the body systems. Inside each one are teams of tiny characters busy at work, and explaining what's going on.

Every page is packed with jaw-dropping facts. Did you know that the skin is your largest organ - in an adult, it's 2 sq m (22 sq ft). Have you ever thought about how heavy the brain is? Well, it's about 1.4 kg (3 lb) and is crammed with 100 billion nerve cells that help you think and move. And by the time you turn 75, your heart will have pumped blood around your body 4,000 million times!

With the challenge of finding two tiny explorers making their way through the body, learning about anatomy has never been so much fun!
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DK Stephen Biesty Cross-Sections Series

Stephen Biesty's Incredible Body Cross-Sections
Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross Sections of Everything
Stephen Biesty's More Incredible Cross-sections
Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Man-of-War
Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Castle
Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections

About the Author

Richard Platt
Richard Platt began writing in 1983, and has since published more than 100 books specializing in children's nonfiction. His books have won the silver Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and have been shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize. He is the author of Eyewitness: FilmCastle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess, and Eyewitness: Pirate, among others, and is the coauthor, with Stephen Biesty, of Stephen Biesty’s Incredible Cross-Sections. More by Richard Platt
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About the Author

Stephen Biesty
Stephen Biesty is an award-winning illustrator best known for his works Cross Section Castle, Cross Section Man-of-War, Giant Vehicles, Emergency Vehicles, and Castles. He is the recipient of the 1993 New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book of the Year and the 2004 UK Literacy Association Book Award. More by Stephen Biesty
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