What Makes Me, Me?

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Reader Reviews:

Fun interesting book......... (2/2 people found this helpful)

What makes me, me? A very interesting question, and one that is explored, mainly from a physical biology point of view......

It begins with elements that we are made of, with a bowl of what we are made of,
then it explains how and why it's not as easy as mixing some elements in a bowl..........

and from there we see the cells, and the body parts and so on,
and learn about DNA, and genetic inheiritance, our differences etc
and more.......

my son likes the idea of creating a body! he even got various elements together, saying, carbon from a pencil etc, in a bowl, and then we saw first hand how just mixing them together doesn't work- and of the infinite complexities of a human body,which when we look at it in the way this book does, quite a miracle that it exists - to gain all these various elements, but them together in a trillion piece 3d jigsaws of cells, put the cells into body parts, and the body parts into the body, and even then, there is more to it......

It doesn't exactly answer the whole question of 'what makes me me', in the spiritual sense, which may warrant another book altogether, but it is an interesting look at what makes me me in the biological/chemistry sense.....

i'm not sure whether to give it four or five stars really, as i think it doesn't fully answer the question in that way, but its worth 5 stars for the excellent information on the side that it does give, and its presented in an easy to understand way, the layout is appealing to look at, which photos, picutures on each page with the writing spaced out amongst the pictures and interesting backgrounds, if all science books were like this at school, i'd probably have learned a lot more!

OK, I'll give it 5 stars then, for what my opinion is worth! It will be interesting to see if the other books is the series are as good. 'What makes me' compares with Richard Hammonds 'Feel the Force' which is another excellent science book that, like this book, is also interesting and colourful to look at, as well as to read, with facts that can have adults and children alike going 'oo, i didn't know that!' (and suchlike!)

What makes me me (5/5 people found this helpful)

Bought it for my daughter as an interesting Christmas present and she could not put it down reading out facts that even I was unaware of.

Best body book (7/8 people found this helpful)

This book is very good. It helps you learn about the body plus it has quizzes!
Caoilin, aged 7

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