Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers: Gross but True Things You Don't Want to Know About Your Body

by Francesca Gould, JP Coovert (Illustrator)

Overview

Get ready for gross, amazing, totally true scientific facts about the human body!

Itching to know what bugs live in your eyelashes, why you get goose bumps, or how ants can be used to heal a wound? Use this delightfully disgusting collection of kid-tastic facts to gross out friends and relatives.

In this abridged edition of the adult bestseller, readers will laugh, cringe and squirm over tons of bizarre facts about the human body. The science is in: You wouldn't want to pick your nose . . . but you won't be able to resist picking this book!

For more facts to disgust your friends and family, look for Why Fish Fart: Gross but True Things You'll Wish You Didn't Know.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101607893
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	03/21/2013
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Francesca Gould is the author of the New York Times (extended list) adult bestsellers Why You Shouldn’t Eat Your Boogers and Other Useless (or Gross) Information about Your Body, Why Fish Fart and Other Useless or Gross Information about the World and Why Dogs Eat Poop Other Useless or Gross info abt Animal Kingdom.

Editorial Reviews

Gr 4–7—Mouse skin eyebrows? Spiders in your ears? Humans with tails? And, by the way, what is the only human organ that can regenerate itself? In this abridged edition of the adult book Why Is Yawning Contagious? (Penguin, 2008), solid scientific information related through unforgettable yet somewhat absurd facts will imprint systematic truths on young minds and provide them with fodder for interesting input to almost any conversation. Used as a preamble and supplement to human-biology studies, this fun book doesn't shy away from any aspect of bodily functions. Kids will likely remember what they read here.—Kathryn Diman, Bass Harbor Memorial Library, Bernard, ME

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