Bones: Skeletons and How They Work

Bones: Skeletons and How They Work
Steve Jenkins (2010)


I first learned about the author Steve Jenkins during a class presentation about authors, and I was really excited to have found this book in the ICPL!  Knowing about Steve Jenkins's background of science knowledge and illustration capabilities, I knew I had to check this out! (I, too, am from a science background.) This book is chalk full of amazing facts and pictures about/of bones!  These bones range from anywhere from a human's bones or even a lemur's bones! This book is a little voacbulary heavy, with hard words, so I would probably have this in  a 4-6 grade classroom, but it would not be totally out of line to include it or read it out loud in 1-3 classroom.  This book could inspire science lessons about the human body and bones.  I really recommend this book!  Make sure to take a special look at the pictures.  Some bones are even drawn to scale, which makes this book very relevant to a student's life.  It also has prompting questions, that make a student think, such as, "Which bone am I?" and they have to guess! It is really quite neat!