My Brilliant Body: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Your Own Body

This amusing question-and-answer book will appeal to kids who are curious about the many amazing and bizarre facts related to the human body. That is to say, just about every boy and girl will want to browse through My Brilliant Body. They'll discover, for instance, that when they bite into their food, approximately 10,000 tiny taste buds in their mouth tell them whether they are eating something sweet, savory, sour, or just plain awful. They'll also learn interesting facts about the composition of their blood, the reason they feel pain when they're injured, how the body fights off deadly infections, and the body's smallest muscle. They'll also get answers to body-related questions like, where do the largest number of bathroom germs live? Approximately 200 amazing questions with remarkable answers are supplemented with black-and-while line art on most pages.