The City Inside You : How Your Body Works, One Busy Job at a Time

In The City Inside You, discover how your body works just like a busy city – from teeth and bowel to your immune system and hormones.

Welcome to your body – it works just like a busy city! Cities are busy places. There are buildings and parks, streets and cars. It takes a lot of people to keep a city running. Some make new buildings, while others drive buses. There are people who deliver the post, collect the rubbish and make sure there is clean water for everyone to drink.  Your body is a little bit like a city – each body part has a job to do! Travel around the city of your body and discover all the amazing things it can do. On your journey, meet the senses detectives who are always collecting clues. Visit the busy smoothie shop (the stomach) and hold your nose when the bin truck (the bowel) passes with all the stinky waste! Don't forget to take a deep breath in the big parks (the lungs) and pop by the car wash (the kidneys) to help the delivery drivers get clean. Discover what keeps your body safe, what happens to the food we eat and how all the different systems and ‘workers’ in our body talk to each other. The City Inside You features exciting text from Nancy Dickmann, whose writing makes learning accessible and fun by comparing the body with a busy city. Paired with bright, engaging illustrations from Lele Saa, young readers will be captivated! This truly is an imaginative, entertaining and memorable introduction to how the human body works, that can be read time and time again.