Seymour Simon has an amazing way of creating non-fiction texts that include amazing facts and incredible pictures in an easy to understand way. In, The Heart, Simon shares facts like, "The heart will beat over 2,000,000,000 times in a lifetime," and, "There are 700 times more red blood cells than there are white blood cells."
Simon has created an entire series of books that have many purposes. These books would be great to use in actual units of study (The circulatory system, Universe, Human Body, etc.). Also these books are great non-fictions reads that will hook boys. Boys love when they can read about blood and guts and anything in between. These books will be flying off the shelf if you have them in your own library in your classroom.
If you like this book by Seymour Simon, make sure to check out Tornadoes, Bones, Oceans, and Lightning (All apart of the Smithsonian collection.)
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