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You Are Weird Your Body’s Peculiar Parts and Funny Functions

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Diane Swanson

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	You Are Weird Your Body’s Peculiar Parts and Funny Functions written by Diane Swanson illustrated by Kathy Boake For information - including sample spreads, free downloadables and more - go to www.kidscanpress.com/Canada/product.aspx?productid=5869

Hardcover CAD $16.95 978-1-55453-282-7 Paperback CAD $7.95 978-1-55453-283-4 Grades: 3 to 6 Ages: 8 to 12 Science & Technology Life Science human body human organ systems adaptations Reading Levels: Fountas & Pinnell P Grade Level 3/4 Accelerated Reader 6 MG © 2009 4-color 8 1/2 x 10 40 pages	Your body sports more hair than a gorilla. About 600 different species of bacteria are living in your mouth. Your head is full of holes. Back when you were a two-month-old embryo, you had a tail. Face it — you are weird! All these wonderfully weird body features make us human. They also show that we're part of an animal kingdom whose members share a lot more than the same planet. This book tackles those weird questions that everyone's curious about but nobody seems able to answer. What does your appendix do? What exactly are goose bumps and why do we get them? Why can some people wiggle their ears? You Are Weird answers these questions plus many more, backing up answers with the latest scientific theories. Take a guided tour around our oddball organs and freaky body functions that make us who we are — wacky, wonderful and weird, weird, weird. Awards 2010 Hackmatack Award, shortlist 2010 Information Book Award, Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada, shortlist 2010 Silver Birch, Ontario Library Association, shortlist Reviews “... this chatty, interactive humorous science book makes human physiology accessible and interesting ...” — Booklist, March 2009 “Sure to appeal to odd bods of all ages.” — Kirkus Reviews, March 2009 “[An] entertaining and informative book about body weirdness for kids of an age to be wondering (or worrying) about what their bodies might be up to.” — The Globe & Mail, March 2009 “A fun and educational read, guaranteed to please!” — CM Magazine, February 2009 “... as visually attractive as it is informative ... sure to be an instant hit with any young reader ...” — Quill & Quire, January 2009

kidscanpress.com presents ...
	You Are Weird Your Body’s Peculiar Parts and Funny Functions written by Diane Swanson illustrated by Kathy Boake For information - including sample spreads, free downloadables and more - go to www.kidscanpress.com/Canada/product.aspx?productid=5869

Hardcover CAD $16.95 978-1-55453-282-7 Paperback CAD $7.95 978-1-55453-283-4 Grades: 3 to 6 Ages: 8 to 12 Science & Technology Life Science human body human organ systems adaptations Reading Levels: Fountas & Pinnell P Grade Level 3/4 Accelerated Reader 6 MG © 2009 4-color 8 1/2 x 10 40 pages	Your body sports more hair than a gorilla. About 600 different species of bacteria are living in your mouth. Your head is full of holes. Back when you were a two-month-old embryo, you had a tail. Face it — you are weird! All these wonderfully weird body features make us human. They also show that we're part of an animal kingdom whose members share a lot more than the same planet. This book tackles those weird questions that everyone's curious about but nobody seems able to answer. What does your appendix do? What exactly are goose bumps and why do we get them? Why can some people wiggle their ears? You Are Weird answers these questions plus many more, backing up answers with the latest scientific theories. Take a guided tour around our oddball organs and freaky body functions that make us who we are — wacky, wonderful and weird, weird, weird. Awards 2010 Hackmatack Award, shortlist 2010 Information Book Award, Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada, shortlist 2010 Silver Birch, Ontario Library Association, shortlist Reviews “... this chatty, interactive humorous science book makes human physiology accessible and interesting ...” — Booklist, March 2009 “Sure to appeal to odd bods of all ages.” — Kirkus Reviews, March 2009 “[An] entertaining and informative book about body weirdness for kids of an age to be wondering (or worrying) about what their bodies might be up to.” — The Globe & Mail, March 2009 “A fun and educational read, guaranteed to please!” — CM Magazine, February 2009 “... as visually attractive as it is informative ... sure to be an instant hit with any young reader ...” — Quill & Quire, January 2009

kidscanpress.com presents ...
	You Are Weird Your Body’s Peculiar Parts and Funny Functions written by Diane Swanson illustrated by Kathy Boake For information - including sample spreads, free downloadables and more - go to www.kidscanpress.com/Canada/product.aspx?productid=5869

Hardcover CAD $16.95 978-1-55453-282-7 Paperback CAD $7.95 978-1-55453-283-4 Grades: 3 to 6 Ages: 8 to 12 Science & Technology Life Science human body human organ systems adaptations Reading Levels: Fountas & Pinnell P Grade Level 3/4 Accelerated Reader 6 MG © 2009 4-color 8 1/2 x 10 40 pages	Your body sports more hair than a gorilla. About 600 different species of bacteria are living in your mouth. Your head is full of holes. Back when you were a two-month-old embryo, you had a tail. Face it — you are weird! All these wonderfully weird body features make us human. They also show that we're part of an animal kingdom whose members share a lot more than the same planet. This book tackles those weird questions that everyone's curious about but nobody seems able to answer. What does your appendix do? What exactly are goose bumps and why do we get them? Why can some people wiggle their ears? You Are Weird answers these questions plus many more, backing up answers with the latest scientific theories. Take a guided tour around our oddball organs and freaky body functions that make us who we are — wacky, wonderful and weird, weird, weird. Awards 2010 Hackmatack Award, shortlist 2010 Information Book Award, Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada, shortlist 2010 Silver Birch, Ontario Library Association, shortlist Reviews “... this chatty, interactive humorous science book makes human physiology accessible and interesting ...” — Booklist, March 2009 “Sure to appeal to odd bods of all ages.” — Kirkus Reviews, March 2009 “[An] entertaining and informative book about body weirdness for kids of an age to be wondering (or worrying) about what their bodies might be up to.” — The Globe & Mail, March 2009 “A fun and educational read, guaranteed to please!” — CM Magazine, February 2009 “... as visually attractive as it is informative ... sure to be an instant hit with any young reader ...” — Quill & Quire, January 2009

written by Diane Swanson

illustrated by Kathy Boake

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Your body sports more hair than a gorilla. About 600 different species of bacteria are living in your mouth. Your head is full of holes. Back when you were a two-month-old embryo, you had a tail. Face it — you are weird!

All these wonderfully weird body features make us human. They also show that we're part of an animal kingdom whose members share a lot more than the same planet. This book tackles those weird questions that everyone's curious about but nobody seems able to answer. What does your appendix do? What exactly are goose bumps and why do we get them? Why can some people wiggle their ears? You Are Weird answers these questions plus many more, backing up answers with the latest scientific theories. Take a guided tour around our oddball organs and freaky body functions that make us who we are — wacky, wonderful and weird, weird, weird.

Grades: 3 to 6
Ages: 8 to 12

© 2009
4-color • 8 1/2 x 10 • 40 pages

Curriculum Connections

Science & Technology

Life Science

human body

human organ systems

adaptations

Reading levels

Fountas & Pinnell

Grade Level

3/4

Accelerated Reader

MG 6

Hardcover

978-1-55453-282-7

Paperback

978-1-55453-283-4

Reviews

“... this chatty, interactive humorous science book makes human physiology accessible and interesting ...”: — Booklist, March 2009
“Sure to appeal to odd bods of all ages.”: — Kirkus Reviews, March 2009
“[An] entertaining and informative book about body weirdness for kids of an age to be wondering (or worrying) about what their bodies might be up to.”: — The Globe & Mail, March 2009
“A fun and educational read, guaranteed to please!”: — CM Magazine, February 2009
“... as visually attractive as it is informative ... sure to be an instant hit with any young reader ...”: — Quill & Quire, January 2009

Awards

2010: Hackmatack Award, shortlist
2010: Information Book Award, Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada, shortlist
2010: Silver Birch, Ontario Library Association, shortlist