The Busy Body Book
A Kid's Guide to Fitness
Random House Children's Books · Print & ebook · July 8, 2008
A celebration of the amazing human machine and a life on the move!
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- Who it’s for
- A cheerful introduction to the body’s systems and the movement they make possible.
- Themes
- How body systems work together, Movement and physical fitness, Building lifelong activity habits
- Genres
- Fitness & Exercise, Human Body, The Body
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A celebration of the amazing human machine and a life on the move! Your amazing body can jump, sprint, twist, and twirl. Your body is built to move. Lizzy Rockwell explains how your bones and muscles, heart and lungs, nerves and brain all work together to keep you on the go. Kids walk and skate and tumble through these pages with such exuberance that even sprouting couch potatoes will want to get up and bounce around—and that’s the ultimate goal.
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Studies show that American kids are becoming more sedentary and more overweight and that they carry these tendencies with them into adolescence and adulthood. Experts agree that we need to help kids make physical activity a life-long habit. Through education, information, and encouragement, this book aims to inspire a new generation of busy bodies!
Body in Motion
A cheerful introduction to the body’s systems and the movement they make possible.
Come here for
- How bones, muscles, heart, lungs, nerves, and brain keep you moving
- Body science with an energetic invitation to move
Expect
- An encouraging look at body systems working together
- Kids walking, skating, and tumbling through the pages
Where it sits
| Human Body | 71% |
|---|---|
| The Body | 58% |
| Fitness & Exercise | 45% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Kids: Body, Mind & Spirit
- Fitness & Exercise
- Human Body
- Authors
- Lizzy Rockwell
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Published
- July 8, 2008
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- How body systems work together · Movement and physical fitness · Building lifelong activity habits
- Reading lane
- Kids: Body, Mind & Spirit