The heart is a most incredible pump. About the size of a fist and weighing only about as much as one of your sneakers, in an average lifetime a heart will beat over two thousand million times without stopping for rest or repair. The heart pushes a stream of blood through sixty thousand miles of arteries, capillaries, and veins, a journey that carries nutrients and oxygen to every cell in your body.
In stunning photographs that will amaze you with their beauty and color, you will also learn about bacteria-eating white blood cells, blood-clotting platelets, and the spongy marrow tissue, where every second three million red blood cells are made.
In The Heart, award-winning author Seymour Simon begins an exciting series that explores one of the most amazing mysteries in the universe-the human body. join him on a journey as strange and wonderful as any voyage to the stars.
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Seymour Simon has been called “the dean of the [children’s science book] field” by the New York Times. He has written more than 300 books for young readers and has received the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Lifetime Achievement Award for his lasting contribution to children’s science literature, the Science Books & Films Key Award for Excellence in Science Books, the Empire State Award for excellence in literature for young people, and the Educational Paperback Association Jeremiah Ludington Award. He and his wife, Liz, live in Columbia County in Upstate New York. You can visit him online at www.seymoursimon.com, where students can post on the “Seymour Science Blog” and educators can download a free four-page teacher guide to accompany this book, putting it in context with Common Core objectives. Join the growing legion of @seymoursimon fans on Twitter!
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