This book is chock full of benchmark measurements comparing data from the human body to familiar objects. End to end your blood vessels would wrap around the world twice and then some, over 60,000 miles! During your lifetime you will consume the equivalent of 9 T. rexes in food weight! Your eyes can distinguish nearly 10 million different colors! These and many other mind blowing scientific and mathematical facts about our body provide delightful STEM investigation opportunities for students and teachers to pursue. – Michael Shaughnessy, Mathical Selection Committee
This picture book for young readers is a tour of the human body revealing the wonders of how it all works — with some astonishing numbers and fascinating facts along the way. From our eyes to our toes, kids will find out what makes the human body tick in this engaging STEM nonfiction book. They’ll discover that our hearts beat 100,000 times a day, which equals 36 MILLION times a year. And that our tongue’s 8,000 taste buds can detect only 5 flavors. And that we have 60,000 miles of blood vessels, enough to circle the world more than twice!
– Book description from publisher