Stickmen's Guide to Your Mighty Muscles and Bones (Stickmen's Guides to Your Awesome Body)

Farndon, John

ISBN 10: 1512432148 ISBN 13: 9781512432145

Publisher: Hungry Tomato ®, 2017

Synopsis

Muscles help you run, jump, play sports, and even sit still long enough to read this book. Your bony skeleton holds you up and keeps everything in its place. Let the Stickmen give you a tour of your incredible body! Find out why muscles are strong and how they get even stronger, how many bones make up your skeleton, and how your body twists, bends, and moves. Along the way, you'll discover the world's oldest skeleton, the longest and strongest muscle, and more. Colorful illustrations and fascinating facts reveal the inner workings of your muscles and bones.

About this title

About the Author:

John Farndon is Royal Literary Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK, and the author of a huge number of books for adults and children on science, technology, and nature.

Venitia Dean is a freelance illustrator who grew up in Brighton, UK. She has always loved drawing, ever since she could hold a pencil! As a teenager, she discovered a passion for figurative illustration, and then when she turned nineteen she was given a digital drawing tablet for her birthday and started transferring her work to the computer. She hasn't looked back since! As well as illustration, Venitia loves reading graphic novels and walking her dog, Peanut.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hungry Tomato ®
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1512432148
• ISBN 13: 9781512432145
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Dean Venitia