Stickmen's Guide
2 total works
Just think, every single thing you do is handled by an amazing computer inside your head—your brilliant brain! And it's helped by your body's internet—your nervous system. Join the Stickmen to discover how spidery nerve cells send messages to the brain in seconds, how quick reflexes keep you safe, and how different parts of your brain are in charge of different thoughts and actions. Learn how all the parts of your body work together with the brain to help you to see, hear, smell, and make memories. Fun illustrations and fact-filled text reveal the mysteries of your brain and what it is that makes you so smart!
Your Gurgling Guts takes you on a trip round the big chemical factory that is your intestine, from the moment you chew a mouthful of food to the waste disposal area right at the end. It s a long journey too, as the surface of your intestine has to absorb so many food molecules it could cover an entire badminton court! Find out what friendly bacteria do, how the liver performs 500 tasks at once, how kidneys stop your body being poisoned, and lots more. The Stickmen's Guide to the Body take you on four fun and fascinating journeys around your insides to show you how the circulation, nervous and digestive systems, and skeleton and muscles do their brilliant work all day, every day, just for you! Cutaway artworks, with pull-out details and photographs, support the lively, very accessible text that explains the four vital systems that make up that unique, super-successful and all-round amazing machine the human body!