

Guts
32 pages2005HarperCollinsISBN 9780060546519
About this book
<p>Why is it important tochew your food?</p> <p>Can you guess how long it takes for food to travel through your body?</p> <p>Could you possibly have twenty feet of small intestines?</p> <p>Where does that bad-smelling gas come from?</p> <p>Your digestive system is out of sight and out of mind -- until things don't go right. Then you may wonder how these important organs work!</p> <p>You'll find the answers in Seymour Simon's smooth, well-organized, and fascinating introduction to the digestive system. He explains how it works twenty-four hours a day, turning pizza, sandwiches, milk, and other food into energy and nutrients and waste. Striking photographs on every spread show how major organs including the stomach and intestines move food through your body, and how, eventually, waste is eliminated.</p> <p>Guts takes the mystery out of something that happens to everyone, every day, while at the same time sharing a sense of wonder about the human body.</p>
Publication Details
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 32
- ISBN
- 9780060546519
- Language
- en
About Unknown Author
Seymour Simon was born and raised in the Bronx in New York City. He attended highschool at the Bronx School of Science. After graduating from the City College of New York with a degree in animal behavior, he worked as a schoolteacher. In 1963 he was asked by Scholastic Inc. to write an article about the moon in anticipation of the moon landing, and he began writing articles for Scholastic magazines. After writing articles for several years, he wrote his first book, Animals in Field and Laboratory (1968). In 1979 he left teaching to become a full-time author. He has written more than 250 books about science for children, and continues to visit schools to talk about science.
More by Unknown Author
Track your reading journey with BookOwl





