HEAR YOUR HEART

by Paul Showers ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 15, 1968

A cardboard toilet paper or paper towel tube can serve as a stethoscope for listening to a heart (not your own), according to this well-worded beginner. Straightforward presentation and strategic repetition indicate the workings of the heart, emphasize different rates for different ages, even suggest audible equivalents (tuppa tuppa for an eleven-month-old, a slower ka dura for father). A consistent color scheme (red for arteries, black for veins) follows the movement of blood (an unexplained substance) through the body, and directions for locating pulse are given. Incidental intelligence: a heart is shaped ""more like a pear from a pear tree"" than like a valentine. Much less technical than Zim's Your Heart and How It Works, this is a fundamental introduction to rite physiology of the heart.

Pub Date: April 15, 1968

ISBN: 0064451399

Page Count: -

Publisher: Crowell

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1968

Categories: NONFICTION