Hear Your Heart -- Paul Showers, Paperback

Read and find out about how your heart works in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.

Night and day, whether you're asleep or awake, your heart is always beating. This overview of how the heart works is a good overview for youg readers.

Hear Your Heart also includes a find out more section on how to measure your heart rate, how to exercise your heart, and how to make a stethoscope.

This clear and appealing science book for early elementary age kids, both at home and in the classroom, is a Level 2 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explores more challenging concepts for children in the primary grades. The 100+ titles in this leading nonfiction series are:

• hands-on and visual
• acclaimed and trusted
• great for classrooms

Top 10 reasons to love LRFOs:

• Entertain and educate at the same time
• Have appealing, child-centered topics
• Developmentally appropriate for emerging readers
• Focused; answering questions instead of using survey approach
• Employ engaging picture book quality illustrations
• Use simple charts and graphics to improve visual literacy skills
• Feature hands-on activities to engage young scientists
• Meet national science education standards
• Written/illustrated by award-winning authors/illustrators & vetted by an expert in the field
• Over 130 titles in print, meeting a wide range of kids' scientific interests

Books in this series support the Common Core Learning Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) standards. Let's-Read-and-Find-Out is the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series.

Author: Paul Showers
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 12/26/2000
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.94h x 9.81w x 0.16d
ISBN: 9780064451390
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.3
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 46565 / Hear Your Heart


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 01/01/2001 pg. 954
School Library Journal 05/01/2001 pg. 146
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2001 pg. 377 - Recommended, Satisfactory
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2001 pg. 377 - Recommended, Satisfactory