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The Busy Body Book: A Kid's Guide to Fitness (Booklist Editor's Choice. Books for Youth (Awards)) |  | Author: Lizzy Rockwell
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 1562816
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Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 40
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.6 x 0.4
Dewey Decimal Number: 612
ASIN: B002LITSRK
Publication Date: March 9, 2004
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Product Description
An introduction to the human body, how it functions, and its need for exercise.
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The Busy Body Book for elementary age children December 26, 2006
Karyn W (Kansas City, MO United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a great book that introduces many different systems in the body while emphasizing that keeping active is so important for your body to work better. Using your muscles makes them stronger instead of wearing them out it tells us. The illustrations are detailed and colorful and the book is fun, overall, with an important underlying message to encourage children to stay busy and healthy.
Well-written children's health book January 4, 2007
Nola (Paso Robles, CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What a super book. It is kid friendly and makes learning about our bodies fun. The pictures and wording are both age appropriate. My grandsons (ages 3 & $) are both gaining from the book and love to see what happens to their food. It also has a great message to keep your body moving (that thing called exercise). Kudos to the author!
great book for kids February 9, 2007
Martin R. Cagan (Saratoga, CA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
i brought this to my 2nd grader's class and read it to them as a group and it was perfect. Really great for this age group. They ate it up.
Concepts Presented in an Age-appropriate Way without Being Dumbed Down December 12, 2008
Redheaded Runner (Duvall, WA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Filled with lively illustrations of kids of all ethnicities, sizes and abilities happily engaged in physical activity, this book is a geared for the pre-school/early elementary school crowd. Rockwell brings the workings of the human body down to a youngster's comprehension and vocabulary level without dumbing down the concepts. For example, when describing how the brain and nervous system work, she writes, "Messages travel back and forth, at lightning speed, along wire-thin fibers called nerves." That truly is it in a nutshell, right?!
As a former teacher I also appreciate the inclusion of diagrams throughout the book. Well labeled diagrams of the systems of the body (skeletal, muscular, nervous, respiratory, circulatory and digestive) enhance the main content of the book. The earlier kids get accustomed to reading diagrams, the stronger their reading comprehension skills will be - think about how often we have to read diagrams in our daily lives.
The Busy Body Book is a fun resource for teachers to use in their classrooms for units about the body and for lessons about how to read diagrams. Families will enjoy sharing the book before heading outdoors for a physical adventure.
Just what I was looking for October 19, 2007
mrskatie (Raleigh, NC)
We haven't purchased this yet, but it's going on the kids' Christmas list. We borrowed it from the library and my 4 yr. boy and 2 1/2 yr. girl are always wanting me to read it or are "reading" it themselves.
My children were starting to ask questions about what happens to their food when they eat it, discussing what muscles were, why we drink water, etc. This book covers a large topic but it a very interesting and kid friendly way. I borrowed quite a few from the library but this is the only one that both I and my kids enjoy.
Very well done!
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