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Carol Donner
Secrets of anatomy

The Magic Anatomy Book

Edited by Ilya Gelfand, Professor of the Medical Faculty of Harvard University

© K. Donner, text and illustrations, 1986

© I. Gurova (heirs), translation into Russian, 1988

© Pink Giraffe Publishing House LLC, Russian edition, 2017

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Dedicated to Robb

Chapter one

Max and Molly, wherever they went, usually walked side by side, but not in step - on the left! left! - but on the contrary, as usual with the twins: left and right! right and left! Today they walked faster than usual, now and then looking at the swirling clouds. Then we turned off the road and hurried up the long slope toward Grandma's house, hoping to outrun the rain.

- Do not have time! Molly announced, holding out her hand. - Already dripping.

- We'll make it! We’ve made it all the way,” Max argued, pointing to a lonely old house on top of a hill. The sharp ridges of the roof rested on the lead-gray sky. A cold wind blew in gusts, picking up fallen leaves and spinning tiny whirlwinds, as if rejoicing at the end of autumn. The day was overcast and dreary, with only two light, cheerful spots standing out against the gray background: in the old two-story house, the kitchen window shone hospitably and warmly, and outside, a cute cat, orange as orange marmalade, was lazily strolling and waiting for some kind of weed to flash in the weeds. any animal.

Max shoved his hands deeper into the pockets of his yellow raincoat and peered up at the sky.

“Typical November thunderstorm,” he announced. - Clouds are coming from the east, in autumn this is a bad sign. Cold air front collides with warm...

“Honestly, Max! Well, what are you explaining? I would say in human language that it will rain.

Molly (also dressed in a yellow raincoat) sighed and kicked a bunch of dry leaves.

– It is always important to know how, what and why happens. Otherwise, you won't know what will happen next.

- You can just look! Molly pointed her finger at the sky. - It is immediately clear: it will rain and we will sit within four walls all Saturday. And none of your explanations will change anything!

“I'm not going to change anything. It's up to you. Ask your fairy godmother to make the sun shine.

- Are you on your own again? Molly laughed.

It was their own, special, twin game: to argue about everything and not give up, and so that there were no winners in the dispute.

- Run! Max commanded. - Racing with the rain. And I'm sure I'll overtake you!

And they rushed up the slope like two yellow lightning bolts. Hearing human voices, Baxter the orange cat sat up, pricked up his ears, and began to wash. Then a huge raindrop fell on his nose. He immediately forgot about hunting and rushed to the porch at a quickening trot of a cat, firmly determined to stay dry. Alas! The sky was torn apart by lightning, and a downpour poured down. Baxter swooped up onto the nearest windowsill, fluffed out his fur, and sat up, glaring angrily at the raindrops falling from the eaves onto his tail. But having made out what kind of yellow figures were approaching the house, he meowed and jumped to the ground for the last desperate jerk: he was used to meeting the twins on the porch.

- Well? Outrun you? Max puffed.

- But I was right: before the rain did not have time! Molly waved her hands, giving the wet cat an extra shower.

- Grandma, it's us! Max shouted and leaned over to pet Baxter. “Poor fellow, it’s pouring from him!”

Baxter shook himself as hard as he could, ducking through the open door first and rushing to his pillow to lick the matted fur.

“Hang up your raincoats, let the water run off,” Grandma ordered. And we sit down to have dinner.

Molly sniffed the warm air.

“What about in the oven, sweet pie?” You can also try?

“Not now, Molly. No need to spoil your appetite before dinner!

– Well, please…

“Give her free rein, she would eat only chocolate,” Max remarked.

- And you with one soda! retorted the sister.

“If it weren’t for me, you would only eat microbes,” Grandma intervened. - Look at your hands! And she sent the children to wash.

Molly grumbled resentfully under her breath: they also say that grandmothers pamper their grandchildren! Max was quick to report that soap and water washes away only seventy percent of germs from the palms, even less. When they returned to the kitchen, where salad and soup were already waiting for them, Baxter was licking like a madman, licking his fur here and there and then again in a futile attempt to tidy it up all at once. Finally, satisfied with the result, he jumped onto an empty chair and looked hopefully into the plates.

“We almost got washed away while we were climbing the hill,” Max said, wielding a spoon.

Max looked at his grandmother, thin and completely gray-haired.

“Don’t you ever get scared around here?”

Grandma shook her head.

- Not. I have never been afraid of being little. The wind howls in the chimney, knocks on the shutters, but I still feel comfortable and calm. This house and I are old friends!

Molly looked up from her plate.

“Is that why you don’t want to move to the city, as everyone advises?” She knew that many people thought their grandmother was an oddball, just like the old house.

“And you want me to move too?” Grandma asked.

- We don't! Max intervened. That is, if you don't want to. We love visiting you. I was just thinking, what if you get creepy in here. After all, you are all alone!

There was a twinkle in my grandmother's eyes.

- Well, why one?

Molly opened her eyes wide.

“What, are there ghosts around here?”

- Do not be silly! There are no ghosts,” Max said instructively. “All so-called supernatural phenomena are figments of our imagination. Nevertheless, he glanced at his grandmother with concern.

She laughed.

“I have a Baxter!”

Pointy orange ears appeared over the edge of the table, and a white paw reached for the bread crust that Molly had just put down beside her plate. Molly laughed too and stroked Baxter, who had already taken possession of the crust.

- Yes, this is a watchman so a watchman!

After dinner, Molly began to wash the plates, and Max wiped them. He discarded two of the forks and threw them back into the soapy water, not failing to report how many microorganisms could fit on the tip of one prong. Molly handed him the last fork and raised her eyes to the ceiling.

“Actually, it was your turn to wash the dishes!” I was washing at the time! Now what are we going to do?

- Can we read it?

- Yah…

- You would, of course, sit down at the piano to practice, only, I'm afraid, my grandmother and I will dry up our ears.

- Very witty. Do you know what? They climbed into the attic! What if I catch you a brownie?

- Yeah, I caught it, how! Max looked out the darkened window. Lightning flickered behind the bead-streaked glass. Thunder rumbled right over their heads and seemed to roll down the hill. The wind ruffled the last leaves on almost bare branches. Max turned around with a wide smile: - Okay, climbed. The most weather for evil spirits. I, please, something slippery and creepy, preferably headless.

The attic was my grandmother's archive, where all sorts of things were stored: her very first doll, someone's skates, a flag with forty-eight more stars - according to the then number of states, a chair with a squashed seat, a broken cane, a wrinkled hat ... They are all something meant to my grandmother, and in a sentimental mood she told all sorts of interesting stories about their long-dead owners. The house belonged to the family for the second century, and in the hidden corners of the attic, the twins sometimes found treasures from quite ancient times. They especially appreciated these dusty, moldy finds - Max immediately came up with all sorts of complex explanations, and Molly fantasized to her heart's content.

Full of pleasant anticipation, they climbed the steep attic stairs and threw back the manhole cover. Slipping between them, Baxter was first in the attic. A dim greenish-gray light oozed through the narrow windows, and a velvety twilight shrouded everything around, stealing away the colors, thickening into a dove-gray haze near the rafters. Rain drummed on the roof. Lightning pierced the sky, narrow as a skeletal finger, illuminating for a moment the wet, bare branch that scraped against the glass.

“For those who want to scare themselves, there is no better place to find,” Max said, perhaps too loudly. He fumbled in the air with his hand for an electric cord from which a light bulb and a switch dangled.

“You yourself said that there are no ghosts,” Molly reminded sarcastically, but more for courage. True, she didn’t particularly believe in ghosts, but she terribly wanted some magical powers to still exist ... For example, she sits on a math test, and an invisible hand writes everything for her ...

She glanced at the vague shadows that filled the attic. Max finally caught the cord and pressed the switch: the light bulb lit up and bizarre shadows danced along the walls. A circle of light slid across the chest that the twins had never seen before.

“Ah, that’s where your brownie lives!” Max exclaimed. - Well, well, let's see ... Well, bring candles here!

“Maybe we should just drag him to the light bulb?” Molly suggested more prosaically.

The chest was heavy, and they had to puff before they pulled it out of the corner. Baxter jumped onto the lid and sneezed. The chest was wooden, lacquered, with a high curved lid, upholstered in copper at the corners, with copper hinges and strap handles on the sides. With such chests, people once went on long sea voyages.

The heavy brass lock slid open as Molly touched it.

- Not fair! she complained. Everything is so easy and there are no dangers!

- Don't hang your nose! We'll still catch the bubonic plague by inhaling this dust. Here is your danger! Max threw back the lid, and Baxter flopped off it onto the floor, kicking up a cloud of dust, and the three of them sneezed in unison.

- Books ... - Molly drawled, deceived in her best expectations.

- Hooray! - Max joyfully, though not without difficulty, took from the chest an impressive volume bound in worn leather and marbled paper. He carefully placed the book on the floor and opened it. The skin creaked. – Anatomical atlas!

“You can see it right away in the pictures,” Molly said dejectedly. “Look, a man without skin. Like we have in the textbook, in the chapter on muscles. Only here in more detail.

- Here's the skeleton! Max pointed. And the digestive tract. Both arteries and veins: two circles of blood circulation, and a heart, and lungs, and a brain, - he listed, proud that he names everything without looking at the signatures.

- Boastful! And this is the eye, and this is the ear. And nerves. And the cells that make them up. They also don't look alike at all. In the lungs, the cells are flat, like pancakes, and the nerve cells are just some kind of spiders.

“That's because they have different functions,” Max replied, flipping through the pages.

- Yes, I know. But I still can’t believe that inside I am also like that. She touched her belly doubtfully. “There should be a liver here, but I can't find anything.

“So it’s soft,” Max answered. - But you can count your pulse, and there’s even nothing to say about muscles, joints and bones. Here, look! He clenched his fists and flexed his biceps.

Molly looked at him without any interest.

- So what? And how much is there that I can’t see at all! The whole world, only it is all microscopic.

She returned to the chest and began rummaging through it. The books lay to the very bottom. But at the side, in a corner, she found a small case. Inside was a magnifying glass in an elegant silver frame. Molly looked into it and was surprised to find that everything around her became small, as if in a doll's house. And Max? Just some goat. She turned the magnifying glass over. Ugh! Yes, he is a giant! On the frame, on one side, “increased” was minted in tiny letters, and on the other, “reduced.”

– Look, Max, wow! - But Max did not want to tear himself away from the book and only muttered something indistinct in response. Molly began to examine the attic again through the strange magnifying glass, turning it this way and that. Baxter purred, rubbed against their legs, took a moment to stroll through the book, but all his attempts to draw attention to his charming persona were in vain. The twins even forgot about the rain. Meanwhile, the lightning flashed more and more often - the thunderstorm broke out in earnest.

Molly, look! Max suddenly exclaimed, and Baxter turned to him with renewed hope. Do you remember when we had tonsillitis? Here they are - tonsils!

His finger rested on the image of a head with a wide open mouth.

In the depths of the mouth, behind the molars, on both sides, two tubercles with the inscription “Tonsils” were visible.

Molly leaned over to peer at them through her magnifying glass. Suddenly, all three of them were lit up by an unbearably bright flash. They heard a clap of thunder, and an impenetrable darkness closed around them. They fell into the silent abyss, tumbled and screamed loudly.

Chapter Two

In the pitch darkness, the twins slumped against the wet, lumpy mattress, which sprung a little. All around was quiet. Only their hearts pounded deafeningly, and somewhere something dripped.

Max, are you there? Molly whispered.

“Here,” he whispered back. - And what happened?

- I do not know.

“Maybe the lightning burned through the traffic jams…”

And punched a hole in the roof. And everything was filled with rain. I just don't get it, why is it so quiet? Molly still didn't understand why she was whispering. Her hand was still clutching the magnifying glass. She slipped the magnifying glass into her pocket and looked around.

The eyes got used to the darkness, and it turned out that there was some kind of light here. She gasped, closed her eyes tightly, and then rubbed her eyes and looked around again.

“I don’t know,” Max replied. - Although there is probably an explanation, and the simplest one.

- Well, uh ... Well, if so, but I'm scared! Molly's voice trembled treacherously.

- Of course it is. You just have to keep your cool until the light comes on. And it's wet here! .. - Max looked at his sister. She sat with her mouth open and staring at something. He turned in the same direction. – This cannot be!

Huge teeth hung from the ceiling. Gleaming moisture slowly slipped from them and flowed along the pink walls onto the soft bumpy floor.

“I think,” Molly whispered in a barely audible voice, “we are being eaten by… a giant.”

- Nonsense! There are no giants!

- Well, what is it then? Molly pointed to a giant tooth sticking out of the floor. Suddenly, that tooth gave off a aching sound. The twins were petrified with horror. Maybe he's sick? Molly gasped, but then something wet, miserable and orange got on her tooth. The pained “meow!” sounded again.

- Baxter! He's here too! Molly almost screamed.

“And the poor guy will be chewed if we don’t pull him off the tooth,” Max added.

- Faster! Molly got to her feet somehow. - The water is coming.

They grabbed hold of each other and tried to walk on the bumpy, springy surface.

"It's a giant language," Max announced. - And it's wet here not from water, but from saliva!

They got to Baxter and dragged him down just in time: the upper and lower teeth closed with a monstrous thud and an earthquake began. The tongue lifted, curved, and they slipped into the depths of the mouth. There they were thrown over a waterfall, no matter how they clung to the slippery walls. The tongue froze majestically, then its curved end began to descend to the lower teeth, but the children and the cat were already being carried in the opposite direction.

- Hold on! Max shouted. - We're being swallowed!

- What are you holding on to? Molly asked desperately.

Then, right below them, they saw a fairly wide ledge, jumped off, clung to it and watched in horror as the stream of the waterfall rolled over them into a bottomless black abyss.

- Everything is good! - Taking a breath, exclaimed Max, when he was convinced that all three of them were still on the ledge.

Suddenly, the ledge leaned up and pinned them against the wall. Poor Baxter disappeared entirely behind him, but, writhing desperately, he somehow got out to the raised edge. And then a hurricane hit. A powerful whirlwind picked up the cat, spun it around and pulled it into a hole that had opened under the ledge. The desperate feline scream was dissolved in the howl of the wind. Molly squealed and tried to grab the disappearing tail, but she couldn't. And the wind died down for a moment, changed direction and turned into a light, even breeze. The giant was breathing. Molly and Max clung to the ledge, but Baxter disappeared without a trace.

- None of this can be! Max groaned.

- We're trapped! Molly looked up. “There’s no way we can go back.” The walls are too steep and slippery. She looked down. And we can't go down. Let's smash to death. Baxter, however, has claws ... Maybe he managed to cling to the wall.

Well, he always falls on all fours.

- We can't do that. So we're trapped," she finished dejectedly. - Inside the giant.

- It can not be! Max moaned again. We need to find a logical explanation...

- You're on your own again! Well, where is the logic here? She waved her hand.

- Okay. Then explain!

“Don't ask me…” Molly peered into the abyss into which Baxter had disappeared. We must save him.

- Whom? Baxter? What we can do?

But you can't just leave him there. He will go crazy with fear.

- Follow him there? I'll go crazy with fear too.

“But you still have to try.

With a roar, another hurricane rushed past, died down and came back in a steady breeze.

“I think this ledge is some kind of tunnel cover, through which the wind walks,” Molly said thoughtfully.

“Then it’s the epiglottis,” Max said. - I saw it in a book. It protects the windpipe, that is, the trachea, when we swallow, so that food does not enter the lungs and we do not choke.

“That's where Baxter fell in,” Molly said. - Inhale. Means, the second tunnel for food. She pointed to the abyss into which the waterfall had fallen.

“Yes, it’s the esophagus,” Max agreed, but the fact that they now knew where they were didn’t make them feel any better. “Just don't panic. We must keep our cool. Do not lose your head ... Gather your thoughts.

They looked down at the two huge gaping holes, and then up to where the saliva dripped down the sides of the giant throat.

“Just don’t panic,” Max repeated. - We have to think of something.

I try and try everything...

They took a deep breath, threw back their heads and shouted as loud as they could:

- HELP-AND-AND-THE!!!

- What? Molly looked at Max. - Is that what you said?

- Of course not! I said it. I asked you not to make any noise, - the voice said authoritatively. It seemed like someone was trying to speak through the water.

Max looked at Molly.

- Did you hear?

There was no one to be seen around. Nothing moved. And only drops of saliva crawled and crawled along the walls of the pharynx.

The twins listened with bated breath.

- Wait! Stay! Help us,” Molly said pleadingly.

“Know how to take care of yourself,” advised the voice. - Everyone can do it.

But we are in a trap! We don't know what to do! Our cat is in terrible danger! Max and Molly started talking, interrupting each other.

Then the giant sighed again, drowning out all sounds.

“Are you… are you still here?” Molly asked hastily, as soon as the hurricane had died down.

"Gone," Max said dejectedly. “We must have imagined it. Somehow he wasn't real.

“So where are you?” Molly asked timidly. Will you help us get out of here?

- Do not be silly! What does it mean to get out? What for? This is an ideal world. Everyone is happy here,” the voice said categorically. - Yes. Nobody gets out of here. Nobody gets here.

“So how did we get here?” Max asked.

– How should I know? I'm in my place. Where has always been.

- But where?

- Here. Where else?

Max decided to ask the question in a different way.

"But since we're here, what can we do?"

- Nothing. Sooner or later the Body will eat something and you will be carried down.

- In the esophagus? Molly barely spoke.

- Of course. Unless you can fly. Or maybe you can?

“No, we don’t know how to fly ...” Molly looked into the long pipe and shuddered. The voice chuckled and she looked up. “But I can't see you, whoever you are. Where are you?

- Yes, here! Right in front of your nose.

The twins looked carefully to where the voice was coming from, and finally made out a droplet hovering in the air. She waved casually at them.

- Tiny raindrop! Molly gasped.

“Tiny…” the drop repeated. “In our area, size is not a very big advantage!” Plus, I can change them however I want. And by the way, I'm not a raindrop at all. I am salt water, tissue fluid. I am the moisture of the Body! – Indignant spray rained down in all directions. - Tiny! Rain! Pf!

Are you salt water? How is the ocean? Max asked timidly. “I heard that the fluid that makes up the human body is like ocean water.

- Naturally. Life originated in the ocean. Then some ignoramuses crawled out onto dry land without consulting us here, Inside! They didn’t even remember about us, but dragged them with them. Well, we got angry, you can believe me! We needed this land! One air is worth something! Such an abomination! But we outwitted them. They took the sea with them, that's what we did! Made the skin keep it for us, keep it from evaporating. And so it goes on for millions of years.

“Amazing,” Max said thoughtfully. “You built your house out of leather to keep dryness out, just as our houses don’t let rain in…”

He suddenly remembered wistfully how the rain was pounding on the strong attic roof of his grandmother's house. Millions of years have passed since then.

“Exactly,” said the drop. - And the house is excellent.

“But since it happened so long ago, how do you know how it happened?”

“So I was there myself.

- Are you that old?

- Such, such. I am passed down from generation to generation. After all, all Bodies come from the very first. Well, while I'm here.

The droplet hovered in front of them, gesticulating diligently. Wanting to emphasize something particularly important, she shook her head and tiny fists so that beads of spray flew around, as if from a spinning fountain jet. But she immediately flew up to a drop of saliva, merged with it, restored to its previous size and continued to speak, gesticulate, scatter in all directions. Molly was clearly convinced that this process could indeed continue without end.

“By the way, my name is Volnyashka, because I am free to travel around the Body wherever I want.

My liquid consistency allows me to flow into and flow around the cells. For me there is nothing inaccessible!

What's your name, I didn't hear something?

I'm Max and she's Molly. We had a cat with us, but he was sucked into his lungs.

- Oh oh oh! You are seriously lost! Volnyashka said, looking at them. “Where is it, your grandmother’s attic?”

“In the outside world,” Max replied, and Volnyashka shook so much that he dropped several impressive splashes. "So will you help us?"

- No, no and NO! What blasphemy! No one comes out from here. How much strength we gave in order not to let anyone inside. And they are just climbing - microbes, viruses and all sorts of other trash! - The spray flew like a fountain. “If it weren’t for our wonderful skin, we would have been completely overwhelmed!” Get it out of your head. No one gets out of here!

“But at least you can help us find the cat?” Molly asked. "Show us to the lungs?"

He looked at them doubtfully again.

“So, you are little lost people, then?” Interesting ... Well ... Traveling with companions is even nice. Most of the cages, as you know, sit in a seat and don't even budge. He replenished from a particularly large drop and continued: “Just get all this nonsense about outer worlds, attics and grandmothers out of your head. Get used to it and you will understand: there can be nothing better than here.

Max opened his mouth, but hastily closed it again, and Molly whispered in her brother's ear:

“Let's find Baxter first, and then we'll think of something.

Volnyashka looked into the esophagus, looked up.

“Get down while it’s empty.” It is better to carefully slide down yourself than to move out with dinner. Yes, I have to get to work.

– Do you work? Molly asked in surprise.

- But how! There are no idlers here. But don't worry: let's figure out what you are good for, and find you some pleasant duty. Well, certainly not as important as mine. Because mine is the most important.

- And what are you doing?

– I carry nutrients, oxygen, all sorts of news and finished products in and out of cells. I also take out the trash. Without me, they are all covered. I even carry some of them on me - blood cells. If anyone needs anything, please contact me. He splashed right and left. - And now on the road. I don't have another million years left.

“Let's try to slide through these folds like firefighters,” Max said. “Still safer than just jumping.

And we get less wet. Or else they’ll drink us something,” Molly agreed.

Volnyashka said nothing, and the twins got out from behind the epiglottis. They saddled along the fold and glided into the mysterious depths.

- That's lovely! Molly laughed.

Volnyashka planned after them.

You are very lucky to have met me. Otherwise, it would be hard for you. You'll like it downstairs, I know.

The book by Donner Carol "Secrets of Anatomy" is amazing and unusual. It gives knowledge about the structure of the human body in a very exciting way. Often, parents do not know how to instill in children a desire to learn more, how to make a child not only want to play, but also want to know this world.

How can you balance passion and learning? With the help of this book. It will help those parents who want to engage in the development of their children. This is an adventure book. On the one hand, it is a source of knowledge about human anatomy, on the other hand, it is an unusually interesting story, full of colorful illustrations that make it easy to remember.

Twins Max and Molly are too different. They have different thinking, for example, Max is looking for a scientific justification in everything, while Molly believes more in something supernatural. When the brother and sister come to their grandmother, their life is filled with adventure. One boring rainy day they climbed into the attic. Rejoicing in the creepy and mysterious atmosphere, they enthusiastically delved into old things. In their hands was a worn book and a magnifying glass. Only this magnifying glass was magical, and the twins ended up inside the human body. Together with the guys, a red cat also got there. All three are trying to get home. They get acquainted with a spiritualized drop of water, which helps them on a long journey through the digestive, circulatory, nervous and other systems of the body.

The work belongs to the genre Books for children. It was published in 1986 by Pink Giraffe. On our site you can download the book "Secrets of Anatomy" in fb2, rtf, epub, pdf, txt format or read online. The rating of the book is 4.79 out of 5. Here, before reading, you can also refer to the reviews of readers who are already familiar with the book and find out their opinion. In the online store of our partner you can buy and read the book in paper form.

The Magic Anatomy Book

Nominee for the Runet Book Prize 2012.

• Book author, illustrator: Carol Donner, physician, American artist specializing in the popularization of medical literature
• Translator into Russian: Irina Gurova
• Publisher: Pink Giraffe

We have never met a more complete, reliable, fascinating answer to the question about the structure of the human body! The twins Max and Molly, the heroes of the book "Secrets of Anatomy", get inside the human body (the book begins with this - how they find an amazing magnifying glass and a book on anatomy in their grandmother's attic among old things). Max and Molly are no longer in the attic of their grandmother's house, but travel inside a living human body.

Using the techniques of the adventure genre, the author expounds modern ideas about the structure and functions of the main organs and tissues of the human body with exceptional clarity. The text is supplemented by magnificent author's illustrations. The drawings are very accurate from a medical point of view. You can really learn anatomy from them.

This book is not for toddlers, but for middle and high school age!! And for adults! Here everything is so precise and interesting, and it is clear that everything falls into place! After reading this book, you will easily master special reference books, medical literature.

• How is my own body?
• Why doesn't the stomach digest itself?
• Why is the immune system needed?
• How is the cell arranged?
• What is adrenaline?
• And many many others!

Carol Donner's book Secrets of Anatomy had already been published in Russian before, in the late 1980s. This fascinating thriller-journey inside the human body became an instant bestseller. Many mothers and fathers who grew up on this book tried for a long time to find it for their own children - in libraries, in second-hand bookshops, with friends and acquaintances.

The drawings in the book, it is immediately clear, were made NOT by an ILLUSTRATOR of CHILDREN'S BOOKS, but by an artist specializing in the popularization of MEDICAL LITERATURE. This book is very valuable precisely in obtaining "anatomical" knowledge.

The book is published very solidly: strong cover, coated matte paper, the font is read well, excellent print quality.

• At the end of the book there is a GLOSSARY OF TERMS.
• Weight: 778 g, 156 coated pages.
• Dimensions: 242x220x16 mm

REVIEWS about the book:

Our library has this book, published back in 1988 by the MIR publishing house with a circulation of 200,000 copies! This book was treasured as a real treasure, given to read as a precious gift. Now there are many books on anatomy for children, but such a masterpiece does not work. This is because the author, who is also an artist, did not make an atlas, but an exciting journey. The author is an artist specializing in illustrations for scientific and educational medical literature. At the same time, she managed to write in an exciting and interesting way for children, although parents also read with pleasure.

After reading this book - this subject, ANATOMY, will never seem boring and uninteresting ...

I have been looking for this book for 15 years already on the principle of "find something, I don't know what", because I forgot the rather banal title and the unusual name of the author. I read it as a schoolgirl and had an absolute 5 in anatomy. The teacher always tried to catch on ignorance of the lesson, but all attempts ended in her complete disappointment. Despite the fact that I did not open the textbook at home, the lesson was enough. But I read this interesting story! and everything fell into place by itself. It was from reading it that my love for biology and anatomy was born, which led me to medicine.

I remember that it all starts with the fact that children during a thunderstorm climb into the attic and find an old book, another roll of thunder is heard and they find themselves in a very strange place. As it turns out in the human oral cavity, because. The book was an atlas of anatomy. From that moment on, they are forced to travel through the body, trying to return home. And in this journey, they discover many secrets, amazing harmony and interconnectedness of all processes in the human body. All will end happily, of course.

The author (she is a doctor) managed not only to present all the necessary material, but to fit it so harmoniously into a fantastic story that, in my opinion, there is no better book on this topic that would provide solid knowledge and entertain at the same time. I advise you to give it for reading to a child in the year of studying anatomy at school. Despite the fact that someone is interested in it, it may be earlier. I just know from my own experience how necessary it is at that time. Otherwise it will be less useful. Moreover, it contains information (though very brief and restrained) about the human reproductive system.

The illustrations are the same as those in the old library book. The quality of the pages is even better than my old 1988 edition.

This is just a wonderful book, a must-have, probably, in any family library. I read it as a child, and of course, there were no problems with biology as a subject and anatomy at school. And in itself, without taking into account the practical benefits, the story of two twins traveling in a human body will not leave anyone indifferent - both you and your child will read with rapture.

I remember how, having read this book as a child, I fell in love with anatomy and received only "EXCELLENT" in biology at school.

I was happy as a child when I saw this book on the site. I remember it from childhood, then they gave it to me to read for a while, and it was very interesting to me. Although my daughter is only 4.5 years old, I bought her "for growth." But when her daughter saw her, she immediately became interested in unusual pictures, and began to demand to read in the evenings. They read it, but as it seemed to me, it was too early and most of it was still not clear to her ... But it was not there. The daughter now surprises adults with her knowledge of anatomy, and tells her friends "in the sandbox" about erythrocytes and blood vessels :))) The book is excellent!!!

Good to have a reissue. I remember this book from my childhood. Passed from hand to hand like a treasure. After her, attending anatomy lessons was interesting and exciting. After all, together with the heroes of the book, the human body was known.

The book is written in a language understandable to children - it's an adventure. Entertaining, interesting, informative. Very good pictures. I think a lot of doctors became doctors after they read this book as children and became fascinated with the human body. If lessons were taught at school based on such books, geniuses would grow up in our country.

This book should be in the children's library. Such a combination of excellent, exciting, interesting and informative text and unusual high-quality illustrations is not often seen. I myself read it at the age of 5-6, re-read it several times. My interest in biology and knowledge in this area was formed thanks to this book.

After reading great reviews, I bought the book for my 12 year old daughter. It was in the spring. I asked if I should give it now or for my birthday? Daughter said, come on now. And ran off to read. Three hours later, she just left the room. "Well, how?" - "Mom, it's so interesting!!!" The book was read in three days, every day my daughter told me how much she had ALREADY read. A few weeks later, the school wrote some tests with the class (like the exam). There were also questions on anatomy, although they had not yet studied this. My daughter said, while other classmates understood the concepts of medical words, I was already writing answers, all thanks to the book!

I read the book as a child. Many times. When I saw the reissue, I decided to buy without hesitation. Better 2 :) Since childhood, I remember who macrophages are and why they are needed. I advise everyone! I read at the age of 10.

My favorite book as a child! A very interesting and informative book. For children, it is written in an accessible language, captivates and, most importantly, gives an idea of ​​\u200b\u200bits inner world.

I saw this book in the Labyrinth and was very happy - my sister and I read it to holes in childhood, and I really wanted my daughter to have such a book! Very exciting and exciting! Excellent illustrations. A rather serious level of presentation of the subject - anatomy, but without any tediousness, for children, it seems to me that this is important :)). In all respects a useful and interesting book.

Everyone I know loves the book. Especially the ten year old daughter. He reads the book with pleasure, and then tells us. Great illustrations. The content is rich, accessible for understanding and reflection. With such literature, you can not attend a biology class.

I have not seen anything clearer. An in-depth book for a wide range of people. interesting for both children and adults - a 13-year-old daughter and an 8-year-old son (together with their mother) read.

I recently learned that this wonderful and talented book has a sequel - Journey into the world of a living cell. You can find it only in second-hand books - it is found in Ozone. The continuation, of course, is conditional, the author is different, the subject matter is similar - a journey through the labyrinths of the cell (microbiology). The book seems to be also with numerous illustrations, unfortunately it has not been reprinted in recent years (dear PUBLISHERS, pay attention to this information) Maybe someone has read what circle of readers it is intended for? Secrets of anatomy has become one of our favorite books, similar literature would be read with pleasure. True, the Mystery of Anatomy has one more great advantage among others - it is incredibly easy to read!

One of the best anatomy books for sure.
As a child, I adored such a cartoon in which the rescue team could shrink to micro sizes and enter the human body in order to find out what he was sick with and defeat the enemies. Well, this book is pretty much the same. Only here the twins Molly and Max, as well as their cat Baxter, are reduced to microsizes and get inside the human body.
And off we go! The guys woke up already in the human body, and Volnyashka, a drop of water that makes up the body, helps them get out.
It is very fascinatingly written about the whole journey of the guys through the body: they looked into the stomach, and into the small intestine, and why the guys don’t like it in the large intestine, and what the liver does, and what red blood cells do, and where the blood runs, and how the brain works, and what are macrophages. Before reading this book, I did not even know that such cells exist! Actually, I was never interested in anatomy in any way, I was more and more attracted to social sciences, somehow: history, philosophy, jurisprudence.
Although it seems to me that if this book had turned up in childhood, I could have turned my professional choice to a doctor.

Remarkable diagrams of the structure of the body are shown in full-page illustrations, as a kind of map of the children's journey. A glossary of terms is provided at the end of the book.

The book itself is square format, coated paper, illustrations on each spread. Quite heavy (778 gr), 156 pages, after all. The only thing is that the book has a rather small print, so it is definitely not a book for the first independent reading. Under the cut, I give the first chapters for reading, I tried to make more turns.