See Inside Your Body

I was looking for a first body book with clear plastic pages to show body organs, and my local book store special ordered this book instead. Boy were we lucky! No plastic pages, but 7 beautifully designed cardboard pages with lift up flaps. As a Biologist, I love this book! It uses lots of correct terms like villi and alveoli, and some reasonablle ones like spit and windpipe. The pictures really give a sense of what goes where, and how things work. Each page covers an entire system such as eating and excreting, or bones and muscles.Not every 4 year old will enjoy this book. But if yours is like ours and absorbs facts about dinosaurs and begs for nature shows instead of Barney, this hits the jackpot.And the kicker is, it even has sturdy lift up flaps with additional facts. This lets even our 2 1/2 year old interact. He had such fun when we did muscles (they can only pull, never push - squeeze the biceps gently and lift the upper arm, squeeze the triceps and lower it) he showed big sister and she ran in to do that page herself.It does help if you add your own words and interactions to the book's, especially for young children. But if you have a compulsive learner at home, this book will not insult his or her intelligence, while providing a grand and accurate first look inside.

Such a great book to our collection! My children absolutely love the flaps in the book that they can flip and we can read all the little extra details. The book engages the children to search for the flaps and listen to the information. The illustrations are also appealing and colorful which is great for the little ones eyes. It almost reminds me of the Magic School Bus where you can get really small and get to see inside a humans' body which is very interesting to both adults and children. I would though recommend this to children in elementary grade school. My 3 year old likes the pictures but does not understand fully yet but will eventually. Great information for adults as well.

Bought this book for my 4 1/2 year old and have been very pleased. He had started asking about bones, body parts, etc. a few months ago so when I was researching the right book for him and found this one, I was quite interested. It has great reviews from other purchasers which also caught my interest. This book helps explain visually and with small bits of interesting facts, but not too overly wordy to lose a child this age. I help him and his almost 3 yr old sister feel their own body parts, (eg. vocal cords while talking, heart beat, rib cage) as the book walks them through it so they can understand the relationship to their own body. I bet he will continue to use this book to increase his understanding as he gets a bit older. The book itself should withstand the test of time very well in toddler world as it is built tough. Would recommend the entire line of these type of books.

I bought this because I worked for a pediatric neurologist who wanted some ordered for our clinic. I was able to look at this book and see how amazing it was. So, I got one for my son's 7th birthday, and he is fascinated by it. It's a lot of fun, and there's often flaps he misses in the book, so he has a different experience every time he leafs through it. Wonderful for a child who is science-oriented or simply interested in knowing more about the human body.

Very nice book. It has a lot of flaps to lift and looks like it has a lot of information, I didn't read all of it, but it was a gift for my little nephew who would like to be a doctor one day. The reading level is above his (he's 6) but he still can enjoy looking at and reading it. I think it was little pricey but it is a nice book.

We love this book- my kids and their friends like to pull it off the self and look at it. All the lift tabs keep the kids engaged. My 4 year old is super interested in the human body and knows all the organs and digestive pathway from this book. My 6 year old enjoys it as well. I love that is is super high quality pages that can endure all the kids looking at it.

Yes, as others mentioned, the poop kind of steals the show. Agree with another reviewer that the complete urogenital system (including reproductive organs) should have been included, truly a stupid omission. If you are going to write an anatomy book (even for kids), be honest about it. If people are too pent up to want to keep their kids in the dark about their anatomy, then they won't buy education books about anatomy. Also... wish instead of "food pipe", esophagus was written there too (many of the anatomical parts are labeled similarly).... while I understand you don't want to bog a small child down with big words... by the time you explain to them, well it isn't really called a food pipe, it's an esophagus...you could have just taught them esophagus. No reason why they can't print the word and then in parentheses put a more descriptive term next to it... but calling it something it isn't is kind of a disservice to little ones trying to learn about anatomy.

My 5-year old, advanced reader wanted a "lift the flap" book. I didn't think I'd find something that would be suitable for her, but this is perfect. I have a 4 year old non-reader as well. He loves the book too, although I imagine it will be better for him when he's 6 and older. It has spawned so many interesting discussions. As an adult, I think I've loved it as much as they.