The Little Brainwaves Investigate ... Human Body

In this brand new series for younger kids, the illustrated Little Brainwaves characters poke, prod, and peer at their photographed subjects, providing an appealing and original way for kids to learn about an amazing variety of topics. In The Little Brainwaves Investigate ... Human Body young readers can explore the world of the human body, shrinking down to a truly tiny size to examine us inside and out.

Packed with brilliant photography, wonderfully wacky illustrations and amazing facts, children will discover everything they ever wanted to know about the human body - from milk teeth to our incredible circulatory system.

Review:
This brightly illustrated book introduces many parts and processes of the human body. Aimed at a somewhat younger audience than the publisher’s earlier Brainwaves series, this volume takes a similar approach, with many separate bits of information appearing on each double-page spread and illustrations that incorporate tiny, playful people (Little Brainwaves, or "little people with big ideas") who explore and cavort. The main advantages to the new Little Brainwaves Investigate series are the larger type, the simpler text, and the use of many photos and enlarged digital images in addition to drawings and diagrams. However, the juxtaposition of pictures of vastly different scale gives little sense of comparative size within the illustrations. In each two-page section, such as "Cells, tissues, & organs" and "Nervous system", many separate facts appear in boxed sections and captions. The pages may look busy, but children curious about their bodies will find plenty of intriguing information here (Grades 2-4). Booklist