What Happens to a Hamburger? by Paul Showers, Edward Miller (Illustrator)

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Synopsis

What happens to food after you eat it?

In this newly illustrated book, complete with photos, Paul Showers and Edward Miller take you on a journey through the human digestive system into the mouth, down the gullet, into the stomach, and finally into the small and large intestines. You will learn what each of these body parts does to help transform the food you eat. And you will also find out what happens to the food your body cannot use.

Everything that happens inside your body whenever you swallow a bite of food will amaze you!

Annotation

Explains the processes by which a hamburger and other foods are used to make energy, strong bones, and solid muscles as they pass through the digestive system.

Children's Literature

The answer to the title's question is that a hamburger¾and all other foods eaten¾are digested. This nonfiction picture book explains the digestive system processes. Newly illustrated from previously written text in the publisher's "Let's Read-and-Find-Out" science series, the book is informative and useful to the young reader interested in the study of the human body. The illustrations are cartoon-like and diagram, without distraction, the inside workings of digestion. Photo sidebars with microscopic images of the actual insides of the stomach and intestines support the intent of the pictures. Two useful science activities are described at the end of the book, appropriate for primary grade students. 2001 (orig. 1985), HarperCollins, $4.95. Ages 5 to 9. Reviewer:Jacki Vawter

Biography

Paul Showers wrote twenty books for the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series, including favorites such as What Happens to a Hamburger? and Where Does the Garbage Go? Mr. Showers worked on the Detroit Free Press, the New York Herald Tribune, and for thirty years, the Sunday New York Times.