Synopsis: What does your skeleton do?Your skeleton helps you leap, somersault, and touch your toes—without it, you would be as floppy as a beanbag! There are over 200 bones living and growing inside you that make up your skeleton. There are also ligaments and joints that hold your bones together, and cartilage in your bendable parts like your ears and your nose. Learn all about what a skeleton can do—because this isn't some make-believe Halloween skeleton…

Synopsis: From simple questions like "How much food do you eat each year?" to more complex ones like "What makes blood red?" this book helps kids understand their bodies.As kids begin to wonder how their body works, they will want to know it all. In sections on hair and skin, body works, and senses, the authors take complicated questions, like why do you need two ears, and make them comprehensible to the young readers. Other questions, like why you blush,…

Synopsis: What is melanin and why is it important? Why should you shower before and after you swim? Why do some parts of your skin sweat more than others? His book looks at how to keep our skin healthy by protecting it from the Sun, by keeping it clean and dry, and by preventing infection from cuts and scrapes.

Synopsis: Introduces the characteristics and importance of the five senses: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching.

Synopsis: Contents include: Your body; Your eyes; Getting dust out of your eye; Protect your eyes; Eye tests; Itchy eyes; Conjunctivitis; Your ears; Look after your ears; Hearing tests; Earache; Protect your ears.

Synopsis: Did you know that a frog can jump 20 times its body length? Or that an ant can lift an object 50 times its own weight? By applying these ratios and proportions to their own bodies, readers will discover what they could do if they had the amazing abilities of animals.

Synopsis: Illus. in full color. A boy and his dog listen to the world around them. "Illustrations are big and simple; the text is in verse form."--School Library Journal.From the Hardcover edition.

Synopsis: Like the parent Beginner Books, Bright & Early Books feature the same affordable hardcover format, imaginative stories, and colorful pictures. Geared for a younger audience, these books use simple words, repetition, and pictures that act as clues to the text. Contributors include Dr. Seuss ("Mr. Brown Can Moo!" "Can You?, " "There's a Wocket in My Pocket!, " "The Foot Book"), Stan and Jan Berenstain ("Inside, Outside, Upside Down; Bears on…

Synopsis: The fifth book in this popular series asks "If you could have any animal's nose, whose would you choose?"What if you woke up one morning and your nose wasn't yours? What If You Had An Animal Nose?--the next imaginative book in the What If You Had series--explores what would happen if you looked in the mirror and saw an animal's nose instead of your own! From the elephant's long trunk to a rhino's pointy horn, discover what it would be like if…

Synopsis: La vista y el olfato, el gusto, el oído y el tacto -- nuestros sentidos nos enseñan a conocer el mundo que nos rodea. ¡Descubre cómo usas tus cinco sentidos!

Synopsis: A charming, simple riff on knees, in the tradition of the classic Bright and Early "body part" books. Cheerfully illustrated in colorful pen and ink, the featured knees include those on mountain climbers, kangaroos, cats, skiers, skaters, trapeze artists, tap dancers, soccer players, hippos, flamingos, elephants, cheerleaders, grasshoppers, skateboarders, and numerous others. This is a super-simple beginning reader, perfect for anybody lucky…