Discover how your brain works with a fun, lively guided tour around our body's HQ, exploring all its functions and components.
Go behind the scenes and learn about our body's central HQ - the brain sorts out what we can see and hear, stores information, and sends signals to direct our body's actions. Lively and informative text is supported by clearly labelled illustrations and detailed photographs.Cartoon doctors take readers on a tour of the human body, answering all the important questions about how the brain really works. Plus hands-on activities bring the theory to life.
'A very child-friendly bright and jazzy presentation which gives plenty of information in a way that will appeal to children... Clearly explained and amusing.'
' A very child-friendly bright and jazzy presentation which gives plenty of information in a way that will appeal to children... Clearly explained and amusing.'
Anna Claybourne is a widely published children's non-fiction writer, and the author of Where's Will? (Ivy Kids, 2015). She lives in Edinburgh with her two children.
What is the brain? p4
Experiment: Find your dominant side p6
The thinking brain p8
Activity: Thinking cap p10
The brain and the body p12
Nerve cells p14
Signals and reflexes p16
Experiment: Test your reactions p18
Learning and memory p20
Senses: Sight p22
Senses: Hearing p24
Senses: Taste and smell p26
Senses: Touch p28
Experiment: Confuse your brain p30
Glossary p31
Index p32