Product Description

The unique Mysterious You series explores the mysteries of the human body using an exciting mix of thoroughly researched information, amazing anecdotes and surprising try-it activities. In Burp!, kids discover all kinds of fascinating facts about food and eating, such as what food is made of, how your body breaks it down, why you have cravings, how sight and smell affect what you taste and lots more. Did you know? * You use energy even when you are asleep -- 65 calories an hour, in fact. * France's Michel Lotito (a.k.a. Mr. Eat Everything) eats bicycles, chandeliers, wooden coffins and light airplanes for a living!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #683427 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .17" h x 8.49" w x 9.49" l, .30 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 40 pages

From Publishers Weekly
The human body is also explored in two titles in the Mysterious You series: Burp! The Most Interesting Book You'll Ever Read About Eating and Hmm? The Most Interesting Book You'll Ever Read About Memory, both by Diane Swanson, illus. by Rose Cowles. In Burp! Swanson explains the functions of the human body parts using a combination of facts ("Your stomach is a J-shaped elastic sac that can stretch to hold about 1.5 L [1Ù qt.] of food"), anecdotes ("Boiled briefcases, lipstick, sawdust and plaster made for bizarre food in 1941, when war trapped 3 million starving people in Leningrad, Russia") and child-oriented experiments. With contents such as "The Memory Machine," "Drawing a Blank" and "Sharpening Your Memory," Hmm? offers a similar treatment of how memory works; both books feature cartoon illustrations.

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Review
Burp! The most interesting book you’ll ever read about eating is for children who can read well and digest, so to speak, considerable amounts of material. To sugar the medicine, basic facts are accompanied by stories worthy of Ripley’s Believe It or Not. Though Rose Cowles’s illustrations are of the Simpsons school of esthetics, they are nevertheless informative and entertaining.

Burp! is an awesome science book about eating and the digestive system. A real gas for kids 7 – 10.

Everything and anything anyone could want to know about the fine art of eating and the concomitant processes of digestion and elimination are presented in an engaging, amusing way in Burp! Beyond the obvious are sidebars that include the feats of speed-eater Thomas Carson – 22 hamburgers and two litres of ice cream in 25 minutes – and of Walter Hudson of New York, who weighed 1,197 pounds.

In Burp! Swanson explains the functions of the human body parts using a combination of facts, anecdotes and child-oriented experiments. Both books feature cartoon illustrations.

About the Author
Diane Swanson is an award-winning writer of more than 70 books for children, especially nature and science. Originally from Alberta, she now resides in Victoria, British Columbia. She writes a bug column for YES magazine and is buggy about bugs.

Rose Cowles has won awards for both illustration and design. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.