The Blood-Hungry Spleen and Other Poems About Our Parts

ISBN: 076361565X

Author: Wolf, Allan

Condition: New

Ears have drums (but don't play them), knees wear caps (even in church), and a boneless boy turns into a human puddle in this book of wacky-and anatomically accurate-poems about our body parts.To the left of your stomach, a deep violet-red,a filter's at work filling blood cells with dread:The red blood cell graveyard! It's not Halloween.I'm talking about that blood basher, the spleen.Have you ever wondered just exactly what some of your body parts do? How many times a year your heart beats?How big your small intestines are? And, equally noteworthy, which of your muscles looks most like a slug? Certain to appeal to elementary-school children, this unique and humorous book uses poetry to explore the amazing workings of our bodies. With great verve and enthusiasm-and plenty of outrageous illustrations-Allan Wolf and Greg Clarke tickle the funny bone in these thirty-four poems while answering some of those deep anatomical questions.