Kay's Anatomy: A Complete (and Completely Disgusting) Guide to the Human Body

by Adam Kay, Henry Paker (Illustrator)

Overview

This complete (and completely gross) guide to the human body is the hilarious debut nonfiction children's book from world-wide multi-million bestselling author and former doctor Adam Kay! 

Do you ever think about your body and how it works? Like really, really think about it? The human body is extraordinary and fascinating and, well...pretty weird. Yours is weird, mine is weird, your math teacher's is even weirder.

This book is going to tell you what's actually going on in there, and answer the really important questions, like:

Are boogers safe to eat? Look, if your nose is going to all that effort of creating a snack, the least we can do is check out its nutritional value. (Yes, they're safe. Chew away!)

And how much of your life will you spend on the toilet? About a year—so bring a good book. (I recommend this one.)

Sit back, relax, put on some rubber gloves, and let a doctor take you on (slightly repulsive) tour of your insides. Welcome to Kay's Anatomy*.

*A fancy word for your body. See, you're learning already.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593483404
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	07/26/2022
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	498,982
Product dimensions:	6.22(w) x 9.32(h) x 1.37(d)
Lexile:	1060L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

ADAM KAY is an award-winning writer and former non-award-winning junior doctor. His books have reached number one in the UK multiple times and have been published in over 37 languages. Kay's Anatomy is his first children's book.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Skin 15

2 Heart 43

3 Blood 65

4 Lungs 87

5 Brain 111

6 Hair and Nails 141

7 Eyes and Ears and Mouth and Nose 159

8 Bones 201

9 Muscles 229

10 Gut 249

11 Kidneys and Liver 283

12 Reproduction 303

13 Life and Death 331

14 Germs 353

Conclusion 377

Acknowledgments 382

Appendix 383

Glossary 384

Index 393

Further Information 402

Editorial Reviews

2022-07-13
A doctor-guided tour of our “weird” human body and some of its maladies, aimed at readers who’ll giggle over the suggestion that gluteus maximus was a Roman emperor.

Leaving the titular riff on the classic reference work Gray’s Anatomy unacknowledged, Kay moves from skin-side to inside and back—beginning with the cloud of germs, dead cells, and “farticles” that surround us all, covering anatomical features from internal organs to hair and nails, and closing with a frank, if sometimes giddy, description of the reproductive system (“the male one is mostly on the outside, dangling there like a chandelier”), brisk and sensible remarks about death, and a final sweep past the immune system, allergies, and select good, bad, and “pukey” microbes. Though his coverage is so catch-as-catch-can that he identifies each layer in a tooth and all eight wrist bones but neglects to mention the pituitary or thyroid glands, he does include basic personal hygiene and nutritional guidelines, reassuring comments about acne (“face art”) and other signs of puberty, and strong opinions about smoking, hand-washing, and anti-vaxxers. He also tucks in descriptions of common conditions and diseases, from anxiety and depression to diabetes. Along with labeled cutaway views, Paker’s cartoons pick up on the droll tone with expressive faces on many body parts and germs and sight gags like a stack of tiny elephants posed next to rotated views of the spinal column.

A broad and entertaining (if less than encyclopedic) new definition for gross anatomy. (glossary, index, further information) (Nonfiction. 10-14)

Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Kay's Anatomy:

"A broad and entertaining new definition for gross anatomy."—Kirkus Reviews

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