Me and My Amazing Body
A teacher’s look at why this book belongs in the The Why-Askers stage.
Why it fits The Why-Askers (for preschoolers whose every page sparks a question)
A child gives a friendly guided tour of skin, bones, muscles, and brain. Clear diagrams at preschool eye-level answer the body questions they ask in the bath. Factual without a single wasted word.
What makes it special
Sweeney's tour works because the guide is a child, walking through her own skin, bones, and brain with proprietary pride. The friendly colored-pencil diagrams are anatomically honest without a single scary note. Screens tell kids about bodies in fragments; this builds the whole map, calmly, in one sitting.
From the publisher
A girl describes how her skin, bones, muscles, brain, blood, heart, lungs, and stomach receive energy and function as parts of her…
About Joan Sweeney
Joan Sweeney (1930–2017) came to picture books after a career in journalism, and her Me... series — Me on the Map, Me and My Family Tree — remains a classroom standard for making abstract systems concrete for five-year-olds.
Also by this author: Me on the Map · Me and My Family Tree · Me Counting Time
More from “How the World Works”
This book is part of The Best Books for Preschoolers: 30 Teacher Picks (The Why-Askers) in our guide The Best Children’s Books by Age — 120 books chosen by the Montessori-certified teachers at Creative Minds Montessori in Frisco, TX. Come see how we build readers →
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