Claude Delafosse

This is a cute children's book designed to bring the inner geek out of your child. Nothing in it is very technical. But what is unique about it and what I did like is that it went into concepts like Genetics. Without making it into a genetics college course, it explains the 100,000 foot overview of why we all look different. It is basic concepts like these that make the book interesting.

Of course it is a picture book. And one of the aspects of it that will keep a child interested is that it show more has see-through pages that super impose themselves on the adjoining pages on both sides so that the child can look at Bone structure for example. There is one page where it mentions that the way a doctor looks at your insides is through x-rays. Of course there is a super imposed page like the one you see on the cover of this book where it shows the bones of the child being x-rayed. It's neat stuff like that, that makes this book interesting to look at. A child with a science minded bent in their thinking would find this fascinating.

My only complaint (if you can call it that) is that the book is too short. Making it a few pages longer would be a better read for the child methinks. show less

This book from the series First Discovery Books is one of the best. It uses a simple cardboard flashlight (that is a flashlight-shaped piece of sturdy paper with a white circle on the end to represent the "light") to reveal the secrets of underground dens and lairs. Each clear plastic page is illustrated with an image of an underground nest--such as a mole's home--and is placed in front of a black page. You can see vague outlines of things, but nothing clearly. That is until you put show more the"flashlight" between the clear plastic page and the black page and against the white circle the creatures become visible! It is so simple, but so, so effective. It is really magical. A child could easily spend hours scrutinizing each habitat. Wonderful little book. show less

My 7 year old grandson found the earth as an orange concept ridiculous and my daughter agreed -- what? this orange has a magma core? And this other orange is segmented into time zones? (Yes, there were quite a number of gratuitous oranges in this book... as well as the silly one on the cover.) Very weird. She refused to read it again and I don't blame her.

This book explains different systems of the human body. Almost every page has a transparent flap that layers over the other illustrations and shows the different system being explained, which is really unique. Each concept is explained fairly well, especially heredity. There was a weird section about dreams that didn't really seem to fit in with the rest of the book, but it was still interesting. The book ends with a message about how everyone is different on the outside, but we're all the show more same on the inside. I thought it was a pretty unique book with fun way of presenting information. show less