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  • Human Body Theater: A Non-Fiction Revue

Human Body Theater: A Non-Fiction Revue

Author
Publication Date
October 06, 2015
Genre / Grade Band
Non-fiction /  6th − 8th
Language
English
Format
Graphic Novel
Human Body Theater: A Non-Fiction Revue

Description
Welcome to the Human Body Theater, where your master of ceremonies is going to lead you through a theatrical revue of each and every biological system of the human body! Starting out as a skeleton, the MC puts on a new layer of her costume (her body) with each act. By turns goofy and intensely informative, the Human Body Theater is always accessible and always entertaining. Maris Wicks is a biology nerd, and by the time you've read this book, you will be too! Harnessing her passion for science (and her background as a science educator for elementary and middle-school students), she has created a comics-format introduction to the human body that will make an expert of any reader -- young or old!
Publication date
October 06, 2015
Genre
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781596439290
Lexile Measure
920
Publisher
First Second
BISAC categories
JNF051030 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Anatomy & Physiology
JNF062000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | General
Library of Congress categories
Comics (Graphic works)
Human body
Human physiology
Human anatomy

Kirkus

This anatomical extravaganza really gets to the heart of the matter. Not to mention the guts, nerves, veins, bones...

ALA/Booklist

Starred Review
This informative, frank exploration of the body perfectly balances science and silliness.

School Library Journal

Starred Review
A delightful and enlightening addition to nonfiction graphic novel collections.

Publishers Weekly

Brilliant adjunct reading for biology students and the terminally curious.
Maris Wicks
Maris Wicks lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. She has harnessed the power of her various biological systems to draw comics for Adhouse Books, Tugboat Press, and SpongeBob Comics, and has written stories for Image and DC Comics. Wicks is the illustrator of New York Times Bestselling Primates, with Jim Ottaviani. Her solo graphic novels include Human Body Theater and Science Comics: Coral Reefs. She is quite fond of being in the water, whether it's swimming in ponds or scuba diving in the Atlantic Ocean.
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