Science Comics: the Digestive System
A Tour Through Your Guts
First Second · Print & ebook · March 23, 2021
In Science Comics: The Digestive System, visit the inside of your mouth, stomach, liver, intestines, and other organs that make up the gastrointestinal tract!
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- Who it’s for
- A friendly bacterium makes the workings of digestion vivid, curious, and just a little gloriously gross.
- Themes
- Digestive system anatomy, How food becomes nutrients, Gastrointestinal organs
- Genres
- Comics Science & Nature, Human Body, Biology & Life Science
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In Science Comics: The Digestive System, visit the inside of your mouth, stomach, liver, intestines, and other organs that make up the gastrointestinal tract! Your guide to the gut is a friendly bacterium who will take you on a journey beyond imagination. Uncover how food is transformed into nutrients! Explore strange and dangerous glands! Behold the wonders of saliva, mucus, and vomit!
Continue reading
Writer Jason Viola and illustrator Andy Ristaino provide a trip to the toilet you will never forget! Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic—dinosaurs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, robots, and more! Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty-year-old with a secret passion for airplanes, these graphic novels are for you!
An Inside Tour
A friendly bacterium makes the workings of digestion vivid, curious, and just a little gloriously gross.
Come here for
- Follow food’s transformation into nutrients, from mouth to intestines
- Meet the glands and bodily substances that rarely get star billing
Expect
- An accessible graphic introduction to the gastrointestinal tract
- A lively mix of biology and bathroom humor
Where it sits
| Comics Science & Nature | 81% |
|---|---|
| Human Body | 76% |
| Biology & Life Science | 62% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Body
- Human Body
- Comics Science & Nature
- Authors
- Jason Viola
- Publisher
- First Second
- Published
- March 23, 2021
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Digestive system anatomy · How food becomes nutrients · Gastrointestinal organs
- Reading lane
- The Body