You Are Weird: Your Body’s Peculiar Parts and Funny Functions
Grade 3–6—This look at the human body highlights the "odd" and the "gross," but backpedals with qualifiers like "wonderfully weird." Our obsolete, inherited bits such as the appendix are described with intriguing multimedia illustrations of people with distorted features and sometimes realistic, sometimes cartoon color illustrations of the parts on display. Information appears in colloquial text in columns that surround the graphics. Simple parlor-trick-style experiments illustrate points such as determining if your family still has the palmaris tendon. "Freaky Facts" sections focus on sensational details like babies and mothers with tails being executed in the Middle Ages.Weirdcloses with unsolved mysteries and suggestions to use science to investigate them. This is a good choice for theGuinness Book of World Recordsfans to read cover to cover independently or guffaw over in small groups.—S. McClendon, Friends School of Atlanta, Decatur, GACopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.