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Full Description
A perfect book for STEM learning: Kids ages 8-12 will love these creepy X-Rays of bugs, reptiles, mammals, and more!
A Smithsonian Magazine Best Children's Book of the Year
Using incredible X-ray techniques, Inside In displays creatures and their natural habitats in a never-before-seen way. Kids will learn the awesome answers to questions like:
What does a bee look like under its furry coat?
How does a seahorse protect itself with armor and a skeleton?
How does a tree frog use its eyes to swallow?
This visually stunning and highly original book features:
X-ray images are cool and fun to look at!
Simple text helps kids understand the animals and plants in each image.
Pops of neon colors make animals and plants come to life.
Contents
First, a few words . . .
Hey, wait a minute. What exactly are X-ray photographs?
Arthropods and mollusks
The scorpion: What a cutie!
The giant prawn: Underwater knights
The bumblebee: Buzzing hourglasses
The dragonfly: Born stunt pilots
The butterfly: Bodybuilding caterpillars
The centipede: A head with legs
The snail: The mushiest mollusk
Fish
The eel: Swimming serpents
The silver pomfret: A bit of fish with your bones?
The roach and the perch: Fishy failures
The garfish and the barracuda: Sleek and speedy
The small-spotted catshark: Just a big old pussycat!
The John Dory: An underwater vacuum cleaner
The anglerfish: Fish that go fishing
The catfish: Who are you calling a tongue?
The sole: Art and sole
The ray: Bend or break
The seahorse: The odd fish out
Amphibians
The marsh frog: Why frogs are more skillful than princes
The tree frog: Eating with your eyes
Reptiles
The tegu: Tegunosaurus rex
The bearded dragon: A spiny beard
The long-tailed grass lizard: Snakes with legs
The monitor lizard and the python: A legless lizard
The crocodile and the python: A couple of losers
The chameleon: The tongue of death
The red-eared slider turtle: Cold-blooded centenarians
The constrictor: The bigger the appetite, the bigger the mouth
Birds
The barn owl: Big guy, huh?
The wagtail: Swimming in the air
The long-eared owl: Back-to-front knees
The buzzard: Out of hand
The pheasant: Mini-ostriches
The jay: Sleeping on one leg
The duck: Land-air-and-water birds
Songbirds: Spot the differences
Mammals
The bat: Flap your hands
The mouse: Super-mice
The rat: Family feud
The shrew and the vole: A case of mistaken identity
The rabbit and the hare: Same but different
The mole: Mammals never have more than five fingers (even when they have six)
The hedgehog: A prickly mole
The weasel: As wise as a weasel
The squirrel: Handy little monsters
The fox: The tale of a tail
The deer: Living skeletons
The squirrel monkey: Monkey brains!
About the inventor
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