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Since your brain cells are the only cells in your body that are not replaced, you better keep them healthy. From strange ailments, hiccups, and snoring to medical marvels, this book puts a body of facts at your fingertips. It's time to put your feet up and exercise your brain!

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9781404841161

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"Fun and freaky facts about the human body are organized in five chapters. Facts are presented in multicolored rectangles. www.teachingkidsbooks.com-- ""Teaching with Kids' Books"" The bite-size, nonsequential pieces of information in these lighthearted books will appeal to reluctant readers. Small illustrations and multicolored rectangles break up the fascinating, fact-filled pages. Antarctica includes a chapter on how the Earth has changed, with tidbits on fossils and population and climate fluctuations. The chapters in Millionaires cover wealthy individuals, banks, spending, and bills. Blink includes some great gross-out facts, such as ""When the inventor of the modern Frisbee, Ed Headrick, died, his ashes were molded into Frisbees."" These fun, if not vital, additions are reminiscent of a simplified Guinness Book of World Records.-- ""School Library Journal"" You Blink Twelve Times a Minute: and Other Freaky Facts About the Human Body is a gold mine of addictive facts (bet you can't read just one) that will give kids the urge to share such gems as, ""One folk remedy for hiccups is to cover your head with a wastebasket and have somebody beat on it,"" or, ""French queen Isabeau of Bavaria tried to maintain her beauty by putting a mixture of boar brains, crocodile glands, and wolf blood on her face.""-- ""Library Sparks"""

Fun and freaky facts about the human body are organized in five chapters. Facts are presented in multicolored rectangles. www.teachingkidsbooks.com-- ""Teaching with Kids' Books"" The bite-size, nonsequential pieces of information in these lighthearted books will appeal to reluctant readers. Small illustrations and multicolored rectangles break up the fascinating, fact-filled pages. Antarctica includes a chapter on how the Earth has changed, with tidbits on fossils and population and climate fluctuations. The chapters in Millionaires cover wealthy individuals, banks, spending, and bills. Blink includes some great gross-out facts, such as ""When the inventor of the modern Frisbee, Ed Headrick, died, his ashes were molded into Frisbees."" These fun, if not vital, additions are reminiscent of a simplified Guinness Book of World Records.-- ""School Library Journal"" You Blink Twelve Times a Minute: and Other Freaky Facts About the Human Body is a gold mine of addictive facts (bet you can't read just one) that will give kids the urge to share such gems as, ""One folk remedy for hiccups is to cover your head with a wastebasket and have somebody beat on it,"" or, ""French queen Isabeau of Bavaria tried to maintain her beauty by putting a mixture of boar brains, crocodile glands, and wolf blood on her face.""-- ""Library Sparks""

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Barbara Seuling was born in Brooklyn, New York. She spent many years as a children's book editor, publishing her first book at that time. Since then, she has also written The Teeny Tiny Woman, which she also illustrated, Winter Lullaby, and Oh No, It's Robert. Barbara is a member of the board of advisors of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She is also the founder and director of The Manuscript Workshop, a workshop for writers of children's books. Barbara has received the Christopher Medal and the Award of the American Institute of Graphic Artists. Barbara lives in New York City and has a country home in Vermont.

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