The Busy Body Book

This book has all the ingredients for success -- the topic is 'my body and how it works', the text is relatively accessible, the illustrations are excellent and since it clearly needs to be shared with an adult for best results, the paper engineering is probably going to survive for longer than most. It is a fascinating read and the paper engineering is not just for novelty effect but actually delivers, making some fairly complex concepts much easier to understand. The range of pop-ups, the 'touch and feel' and even a cardboard skeleton all combine to make the topic come alive. The whole range of the year groups in my infant school has been fascinated -- the children loved it and were seen even a week later, trying the experiments out in the playground.