Book description
Winner of the 2023 AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books
An illustrated book about the digestive system and microbiome for young readers, from famous (and funny) scientist Dr. Jennifer Gardy.
Everybody eats, and everybody poops. Pretty ordinary stuff, right?
But what happens in between is far from ordinary! That's…
Why read it?
1 author picked It Takes Guts as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This wild ride of a book guides readers as a bite of food makes its way from a mouth on a long journey to…the other end of the digestive system.
Every stop along the way gets a chapter full of interesting facts in kid-friendly language and gives kids enough weird facts to keep the pages turning. I recommend this to older kids and tweens who want to understand what’s happening inside their bodies but don’t want to ask. (Conveniently, it also works the same way for adults.)
From Katherine's list on getting kids excited about eating.
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