The Great Big Body Book – Books We Love!
The Great Big Body Book is our current ‘coffee table’ book. That’s right with our family, kids, nieces and friends over, I placed our review copy of The Great Big Body Book right on our coffee table, and you know what? The kids picked it up and they’ve been reading it. It has sparked some great conversations – I love it as a conversation starter!
Our 10 year old asked if she could read it, my response, “Of course!”.
Mom’s Lifesavers was provided with a copy of The Great Big Body Book to facilitate this review, all opinions expressed are our own.
With colorful illustration and the wide range of topics our kids were drawn right to it. The girls loved the part about being teenagers and the cat that can be seen throughout the book – almost like a where’s waldo but with a fun cat on every page.
Rated for ages 4 to 7 years of age, our girls are 9 and 10 and loved reading through it. The Great Big Body is written by Mary Hoffman and Ros Asquith and published by Frances Lincoln Children’s Books. You can find it online here.
About The Great Big Body Book
Perfect for kids from ages 4 to 7, The Great Big Body Book features lots of aspects of the body including birth, growth, ageing, senses, the brain, and genetics. The fourth book in this internationally best-selling series, it continues the exploratory, questioning framework, multicultural characters and quirky treatment that families and parents love! A lovable cat on each page provides a search-and-find level of play for kids of all reading abilities.
Some of the topics that are covered:
- Babies as they learn and grow
- Differently-abled bodies
- Gender, including a transgendered character and a nonbinary-gendered character
- Growth spurts
- Going to the doctor
- Teenagers who look in the mirror a lot (and why!)
- Keeping your body fit with food and exercise
- Aging
- Death
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