70s/80s children's 'the human body' book, lots of pictures

May be an Usborne book - I remember the blood system being compared to a train service, with the things the body needed being delivered and the waste being taken on for disposal. This was all done by little people who represented the blood cells (I think). Very colourful.

How We Are Born, How We Grow, How Our Bodies Work and How We Learn was the one I had as a child. The second illustration here shows a train/blood analogy:

http://infemity.blogspot.com/2010/11/joe-kaufman-how-we-are-born-how-we-grow.htm...

Not the one I'm thinking of, rarm, but looks a lot of fun (the girl in the meat skirt was.. umm.. bit creepy..)

Ha I've been having this conversation with my sister, she owned it when we were kids. I'm at least 90% sure it was Usborne, the cover showed a kind of reclining robot-man.

There was a page about eating and digestion that showed (the tongue as?) a conveyor belt...

I thought the title was something generic like "how the body works" but it might have had something to do with machinery e.g. "your body the amazing machine" or something.

(Sorry if it's not the same book and I'm hijacking your post instead of contributing usefully to finding what we both seek!)

Hijack away, mybookshelf :)

The book you mentioned is How Your Body Works, which I thought was too recent, but thought I'd do another Google search and found out that it was originally published in 1975, so I think it's the one! Wondering if the illustrations differ slightly, the cover is different.

Some links to a few images, to see it's the same one you remember:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Works-Usborne-Childrens-World/dp/0746023006#_

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alicerosebell/4922663185/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alicerosebell/4922665825/

http://www.owlbooks.co.uk/usborne-your-body-works-p-2555.html?currency=EUR

I like the love-making robots ;)

Ah yes, How Your Body Works! I have to admit that's still how I imagine the various systems of the body, with blood cells as little soldiers, hairy little germ guys, etc. :)

OMG, I had this book too!! Thank you for the search Moomin_Mama and thank you for the title!!

Another happy customer :)