![]() ![]() Unfortunately, there are no source notes to support blanket statements such as, “Everything you put in your body ends up in your blood,” and “Your blood is more responsible for keeping you alive than anything else in your body.” This book’s content is similar to that in Trudee Romanek’s Squirt: The Most Interesting Book You’ll Ever Read About Blood (Kids Can, 2006), although it covers some topics in greater depth and has more of a narrative format. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic The Book of Blood: From Legends and Leeches to Vampires and Veins by H.P. The Book of Blood: From Legends and Leeches to Vampires and Veins 92. The conversational tone and the faux blood-spattered pages, replete with sidebars, color photos, archival drawings, and medical illustrations, are sure to pull in readers. HP Newquist, author of This Will Kill You: A Guide to the Ways in Which We Go. The chapters on the physiology of the circulatory system and the components of blood are more readable than those in many textbooks. ![]() Information about early medical practices such as bloodletting (including the use of leeches) will grab students’ interest, as will the sections on hematophagous (blood-drinking) animals and vampire legends. ![]() Several chapters cover its importance in ancient cultures and explain how our knowledge about its role in the body developed over time. Gr 5-8–Blood, writes Newquist, “is one of the most fascinating and fabled substances in history.” In this compendium, readers will learn about the red fluid’s biological function as well as its historical and cultural significance. ![]()
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