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  • Published: 2 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9781426317217
  • Imprint: National Geographic
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $49.99

Ultimate Bodypedia

An Amazing Inside-Out Tour of the Human Body



National Geographic knows how to deliver the facts along with the fun in this stand-out owner's manual about our most important possession -- the human body. Kids ages 7 to 12 will discover the latest science about how it works and how to take care of it, while getting schooled on material that's relevant to the common core curriculum.

This fun, smart guide to the human body answers kids' questions and engages them with amazing facts, photos, illustrations, and diagrams. The kid-friendly journey travels through the body and all its systems and is sprinkled throughout with plenty of health tips, top 10 lists, simple experiments, and weird-but-true wacky details. Young readers will learn about age-appropriate medical history and body basics, from cells and DNA to growth and aging.

  • Published: 2 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9781426317217
  • Imprint: National Geographic
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $49.99

About the authors

Patricia Daniels

Patricia Daniels has written extensively on history and science, including National Geographic Pocket Guide to the Constellations and National Geographic Encyclopedia of Space.

Robert Burnham is a science writer at the Mars Space Flight Facility of Arizona State University. He is the author of Great Comets and the Reader’s Digest Children’s Atlas of the Universe.

Anne Schreiber

Anne Schreiber is a graduate in Science Education from Cornell University and began her career as an elementary school teacher. She wrote the science content for the Magic School Bus television series. She has written more than a dozen books for young children. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.