Describes the structure of the human skeleton and explains how bones grow, fit, flex, and sometimes break, with activities, puzzles, quizzes, and a skeleon model that can be assembled.
Explore the future with bionic skeletons and 3D printed bones. With an embossed cover and a pull out five-foot skeleton poster inside the book, The Skeleton Book gives perspective for kids to study a life-size version of the human skeleton.
This book is far from skinny -- it's the definitive nonfiction title about human and animal bones, delivered with in-your-face accuracy and intrigue.
Accompanied by interesting, informative "bone facts" this book makes a wonderful addition to both home and classroom libraries and a fun treat for Halloween!
The Big Book of Bones: An Introduction to Skeletons
Bridging the worlds of paleontology, anthropology, medicine, and forensics, Skeleton Keys illuminates the complex life of bones inside our bodies and out.
Did you know that the body in your body have names too? This book is a collection of interesting facts that kids would find easy to learn.
Provides an understanding of the vital tasks performed by the skeleton, which range from protecting soft organs to manufacturing bloodcells
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With a lively rhyming text and vibrant paper collage illustrations, author-artist Bob Barner shakes the dust off the dinosaur bones found in museums and reminds us that they once belonged to living, breathing creatures.
When two children bring home a toy skeleton from the harvest fair, hanging it from a sycamore tree and naming it Fred McFee, strange things begin to happen, in a hauntingly hilarious Halloween tale.