02991nam a2200385 i 4500 PPAK 20251027154357.0 230715s2023 enka cr 001 0 eng 9780241606247 RM 103.50 paperback PPAK eng PPAK rda 23 612 612 YOU RK Young, Emma, (Children's author), author. A REALLY SHORT JOURNEY Through THE BODY / Adapted EMMA YOUNG ; Illustrations by DANIEL LONG & DAWN COOPER & JESUS SOTES & KATIE PONDER London : PUFFIN BOOKS, 2023 138 pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Adapted from "The body : a guide for occupants" by Bill Bryson, published in Great Britain by Doubleday, 2019 Includes index Introduction -- How to build a body -- What is a cell -- DNA -- Conception to birth -- Wanted: the perfect skeleton -- Muscles -- Your thigh bone's connected to your -- Hands and feet -- Hair -- Skin -- A murder-mystery sensation -- Touch -- Crawling with life -- The life inside you -- The brain -- Bits of the brain -- Brain development and plasticity -- Don't believe your brain -- The face -- Sight -- Light and dark -- Body clocks -- Hearing -- Smell -- The mouth -- Teeth -- Taste -- Swallow or dribble? -- The Chevalier Jackson foreign body collection -- Talking -- Breathing -- Don't hold your breath! -- Sleep -- Heart -- Healing the heart -- Blood, blood, glorious blood -- The bloody facts -- The chemistry department -- Puberty -- The liver -- The pancreas and the spleen -- The kidneys -- The bladder -- Food -- Calories -- The most famous stomach -- The guts -- Poo and farts -- Pain -- The immune system -- Diseases -- Fighting infection -- Today's enemies -- Allergies -- Ageing -- Death -- Cheating death -- And there you have it. We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. Want to know why the skin is the biggest organ? Why our brains can see into the future? Or why your eyes are back to front? Packed full of facts, big numbers (such as the amount of microbes that make you) and small numbers (the size of those very tiny microbes) all in full-colour Pre-adolescent. Human body Juvenile literature Human physiology Juvenile literature Human anatomy Juvenile literature Illustrated works Long, Daniel, illustrator. Cooper, Dawn, illustrator. Sotés, Jesús, illustrator. Ponder, Katie, illustrator. Adaptation of (work): Bryson, Bill, Body. ddc B 201344 201344 0 1 PPAK RK 2025-11-19 0 RK 612 YOU A01891362 2025-11-19 16:00:03 B