Lobe Your Brain: What Matters About Your Grey Matter

by Leanne Boucher Gill PhD

Overview

Kids know that their brain does a lot, like make them move, smile, remember, think, feel, and emote. But do they know how it really works?

Readers will take a tour of the lobes of the human brain to discover all the cool things that it can do in this must-have introduction for all nonfiction collections.

Includes kid-friendly examples, simple explanations, and basic anatomy illustrations that show different parts of his brain and central nervous system, basic neurological function, and how everything flows.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433830464
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
Publication date:	06/01/2021
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	1,053,587
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	610L (what's this?)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Leanne Boucher Gill, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Nova Southeastern University, where she received the Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award and was named the NSU STUEY Professor of the Year. She maintains an active research program studying how exercise affects the way we think. She lives in South Florida. Visit her on Twitter @BoucherLeanne.

Editorial Reviews

2021-04-14
An overview of the brain and nervous system.

Two narrators—one brown-skinned, one pale—in lab coats give a “tour” of the brain’s structure, particularly its four lobes: occipital, temporal, parietal, and frontal. In speech-balloon dialogue, they begin by exploring the interaction between the brain and spinal cord, likening the spinal cord to “a busy highway” that transmits sensory information to the brain, which in turn directs the body to dance to music or to “move your brother’s arm away when he touches you…again!” Kid-friendly examples abound as they trace the brain’s various parts, and the bright, geometric uncredited illustrations cheerfully—if stiffly—depict racially diverse kids engaging in fun activities courtesy of their brains. The cerebellum helps with shoe-tying and bike riding. The occipital lobe sees colors and movement “like movies or a bike zooming by”; the temporal lobe learns new facts and remembers existing information, like “the name of your best friend’s dog.” The parietal lobe handles sensory information; the frontal lobe controls movement and decisions: “Should you clean up your toys or continue playing video games?” The limbic system helps readers figure out “which feelings [they’d] rather have” about those decisions. The tour ends rather abruptly, with the narrators encouraging readers to “LOBE” their “big, beautiful” brains. Disappointingly, neurodivergence and disability go unmentioned, which may leave neurodivergent readers wondering where their brains fit in.

A matter-of-fact introduction to typical brains. (Informational picture book. 4-7)

Kirkus Reviews