Gruesome Guts - Body Works Author:Anna Claybourne How much saliva does your body make each day? What lives inside your stomach? How long are your intestines? Bursting with amazing images, gross facts, and cool activities, Gruesome Guts is the perfect book for all budding biologists. It?s time to find out how the human body really works! Following the successful Science Crackers series, Body Wor... more »ks explores the science of the human body. Bite-size facts and gross stories make information easy to digest. Cartoon doctors take readers on a tour of the human body, answering all the important questions about how a body really works. For example, why does it feel like there are butterflies in your stomach? Why does your leg sometimes go to sleep? Questions help children to relate to science, and comical cartoons help them to visualize scientific facts. Each of the four books explains the functions of different organs and systems. Lively and informative text is supported by clearly labeled illustrations and detailed photographs. Each book contains five hands-on activities, from testing lung capacity to making a model stomach.« less