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I didn't tell it to do that!: Why your body hiccups, sneezes, burps and growls without asking you
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.08 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Nia drinks her milk too fast, and her body does something she absolutely did not ask it to do.
HIC!
Then it does it again. And again. And over the next few days her body sneezes, growls in the quietest part of assembly, goes bumpy all over, yawns so hard it starts a yawn wave across the classroom, and shakes her teeth loose in the wind - all without checking with her first.
So Nia does what any sensible six-year-old would do. She starts keeping score.
I didn't tell it to do that! answers the question children actually ask - why did my body DO that? - eight times, with the real science each time, in the shortest true words we could find. Every noise gets one big picture that shows the culprit, and one page you can finish before bedtime.
What your child gets:
- Eight real body mechanisms, explained in pictures a six-year-old can read before the words
- Two enormous words to own: diaphragm and BORBORYGMUS
- Three try-this experiments needing nothing but a clock, a pencil and a grown-up's tummy
- A runaway pea hidden on every single page, and a cat who is never once mentioned in the text
What you get: a nonfiction picture book that reads aloud in about twelve minutes, never lectures, and tells the truth - including that no hiccup cure is proven, that the famous hundred-mile-an-hour sneeze is a myth (it's about ten), and that after hundreds of years nobody knows why we yawn.
Ends quietly, with a heartbeat and a cat.
From the author of The Worry Whale.
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