Like most other reviewers got this as my 4-5 year old began asking questions about what is inside us? what is blood? what happens to our food? Why do we poo?
All these questions, and lots more besides, are answered simply with good instructional pictures which even taught me a few things.
Nothing included of a sexual nature but that's fine.
All-in-all excellent.
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I am a Grand Ma and improved my Grand Ma ratings with all my grand children when I gave this to a 7 year old for Christmas. Cool, awsome, and other such things that are not often associated with Grand Ma's. All that said, I enjoyed the book myself as I have a hard and fast rule, don't give anything you would not like to receive. It is also the sort of book you can go back to over and over again, and, I am assured, it has a high swap value!!!
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This book makes fascinating reading and is written in a humorous and easy-to-read style. My only complaint is that the author tends to skip over the scientific discoveries of the 18th and 19th centuries rather quickly and then spends most of his time on the 20th century and mainly American contributions to science. But, after all, Mr. Bryson is typically American and tends to follow National Geographic style in this. Still, it is well worth reading even several times and is very thought provoking. Thank you, Mr. Bryson, for explaining it all so neatly.
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Bought this book for our daughter last Christmas, fantastic! Beautiful book, lovely detail and easy to read. Eye catching text and picures - just a great book for young and old.
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I found this book made geographical ideas more complicated which obviously is not what I bought the book for! I ended up buying another revision book (bbc bitesize) which was much easier to understand and use.
Also the jokes in this are awful!
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My 12 year old son picked this up and read in from front to back in preference to playing computer games - says it all, really! He adored it, but was slightly upset that not all elements were represented. I suggested it would have made it too large and not in the excellent 'pocket book' category, but he is correct that it is not only the wierd and wonderful elements that are missing but some basic ones too. Any chance of a 'Periodic Table Book 2' to fill in some gaps?
The subsequent 'Physics: Why Matter Matters' is even better and we can't wait for the Biology one in Oct 2008. Hope the series keeps going!
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What a great book! Just enough information for an inquisitive 5 year old and his mum who it seems doesn't always have the answers...until now!
Great illustrations to help understanding and simply put text...my little boy is dipping into this all the time. We look at the stars now in a different light. I'm off to buy some different titles in the same series...can't recommend enough.
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What a great book! Just enough information for an inquisitive 5 year old and his mum who it seems doesn't always have the answers...until now!
Great illustrations to help understanding and simply put text...my little boy is dipping into this all the time. We look at the stars now in a different light. I'm off to buy some different titles in the same series...can't recommend enough.
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What a great book! Just enough information for an inquisitive 5 year old and his mum who it seems doesn't always have the answers...until now!
Great illustrations to help understanding and simply put text...my little boy is dipping into this all the time. We look at the stars now in a different light. I'm off to buy some different titles in the same series...can't recommend enough.
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Brought this for my dyslexic 12-year-old son who normally likes books which have small fact based sentences.
He hated this one.
Said it was "boring" and "rubbish compared to the Wombats bum book which is fabulous" and he devoured.
Possibly a better book for a younger child but we only tried this because of his lower reading age and because of the style of the book - Wrong choice.
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