Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers: Gross but True Things You Don't Want to Know About Your Body - Softcover

Gould, Francesca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039925790X ISBN 13: 9780399257902

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2013

Synopsis

Get ready for gross, amazing, totally true scientific facts about the human body!

Itching to know what bugs live in your eyelashes, why you get goose bumps, or how ants can be used to heal a wound? Use this delightfully disgusting collection of kid-tastic facts to gross out friends and relatives.

In this abridged edition of the adult bestseller, readers will laugh, cringe and squirm over tons of bizarre facts about the human body. The science is in: You wouldn't want to pick your nose . . . but you won't be able to resist picking this book!

About this title

About the Author:

Francesca Gould is the author of the New York Times (extended list) adult bestsellers Why You Shouldn’t Eat Your Boogers and Other Useless (or Gross) Information about Your Body, Why Fish Fart and Other Useless or Gross Information about the World and Why Dogs Eat Poop Other Useless or Gross info abt Animal Kingdom.

From Booklist:

Recast in simpler language from a 2007 edition aimed at adult audiences (and with some deletions, such as the chapter originally dubbed Amatory Arcana), this Q&A crowd-pleaser is oozing with need-to-know facts—from a tally of creatures that live on or under our skin to what people used to wipe in the days before toilet paper and why some boogers are green. Coovert’s occasional silly cartoon illustrations create a misleading impression, because however titillating the questions (not to mention the title), the answers are more or less serious, accurate, and specific in biological detail. General browsers will be eager to pick out and share juicy passages and can’t help but come away with globs of random and sometimes even useful information on topics as diverse as the medical uses of insects to the functions of yawns, goose bumps, hiccups, and ear wax. Curious about the titular caution? It has more to do with what would be going into one’s nose on a finger than what would be coming out. Grades 3-5. --John Peters

About this edition

• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 039925790X
• ISBN 13: 9780399257902
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Illustrator: Coovert JP