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Product description Take a deep breath and then let it out. Did you feel your chest rise and fall? That is actually your lungs filling with oxygen and then pushing carbon dioxide back out when you exhale. Without your lungs and your entire respiratory system, the rest of your body wouldn't receive the oxygen you need to survive. To give your body the oxygen it needs, you breathe twenty times every minute. You breathe more than twenty thousand times each and every day. Acclaimed science writer Seymour Simon explores the important journey that air takes in and out of your lungs. From School Library Journal Grade 3–6—This straightforward overview of the respiratory system follows the journey of a breath through the body. Color diagrams, X-rays, and photos provide visual support, though these are not always as well labeled as one would hope (a diagram of the nasal cavity is the worst offender). The book also covers related issues such as coughing, sneezing, hiccups, and respiratory problems and diseases. The writing is concise and full of clear examples meaningful to kids, and the glossary, index, and suggestions for further reading extend the book's usefulness. More detailed than Suzanne LeVert's The Lungs (Benchmark, 2001) and geared to an older audience than Pamela Hill Nettleton's outstanding Breathe In, Breathe Out: Learning about Your Lungs (Picture Window, 2004), this is an excellent resource for reports.— Kathleen Kelly MacMillan, Carroll County Public Library, MD Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist What happens when a person breathes, coughs, sneezes, or hiccups? Simon provides the answers in his latest science education book, written under the Smithsonian's imprimatur. Although this book isn't quite as detailed as some of the author's previous texts about the human body, there's still plenty of information for elementary-school readers, and as always, Simon brings the science close without condescension. Beginning with what happens when a person inhales, he goes on to discuss the parts of the respiratory system and how they work, with more particulars sometimes provided in the glossary. Each attractive,^B double-page spread^B features one page of spaciously laid out, informative text opposite a full-page, color illustration. The striking images include photos, diagrams, and color-enhanced X-rays of the nasal cavity, the trachea, the heart and major blood vessels, and more. The scary view of a smoker's damaged lungs, which appears opposite facts about serious respiratory problems, may inspire classroom discussion. Hazel Rochman Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved About the Author Seymour Simon has been called “the dean of the [children’s science book] field” by the New York Times. He has written more than 300 books for young readers and has received the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Lifetime Achievement Award for his lasting contribution to children’s science literature, the Science Books & Films Key Award for Excellence in Science Books, the Empire State Award for excellence in literature for young people, and the Educational Paperback Association Jeremiah Ludington Award. He and his wife, Liz, live in Columbia County in Upstate New York. You can visit him online at www.seymoursimon.com, where students can post on the “Seymour Science Blog” and educators can download a free four-page teacher guide to accompany this book, putting it in context with Common Core objectives. Join the growing legion of @seymoursimon fans on Twitter!
