Several weeks ago Nathan asked me what a rib cage is. This prompted me to look online for a skeleton I could print out for him. I told him how the ribs protect his heart and lungs. Next thing I know he is harassing me every day to type ‘inside body’ into Google because he wanted to know more, like what intestines look like.

Whenever we are in the city we frequent a little book shop, and Nathan is a favorite of Dora who works there. I told her I was looking for a book about the human body that would suit Nathan, and so she checked with their other shop to see if they had one she thought would be good. Last Friday we went to the shop to have a look at the book as she had it in, and came home with Look Inside Your Body which has little pieces of interesting information and lift-the-flaps all over the place….flaps under flaps under flaps in some places! Now Nathan asks us to read his “inside body” book all the time.

I think it is aimed at an older child, maybe more to the early primary school aged kids, but Nathan adores it and is getting a lot out of it. It is now also compulsory reading for vet Angus and any animal in our collection that wants to become a vet. In the photo above, Nathan is explaining the digestive system to baby polar bear who wants to become a vet when he grows up.