Human Body Books for Kids
This is such a fun topic for us! We have some great human body printables and love including books into our studies. In this post, you will see a great list of human body books for kids who love books, who love learning about the human body or that need to get into reading (because these are just so much fun and so interesting)! 🙂
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Human Body Books for Kids
I like to have a spine or reference book that I can use to refer to definitions and such during our work term.
I like the Visual Dictionary of the Human Body and Human Body: An Illustrated Guide to Every Part of the Human Body and How It Works
They’re a wonderful way to visualize the topics you’ll be discussing.
This one is great for younger kids.
If you’re looking for more human body activities to extend your homeschool science lesson, try our Human Life Cycle Worksheet.
First Human Body Encyclopedia by DK
Learn about how each part of the body works together in this kid’s human body encyclopedia. With this book, you can learn about everything from your cells to your nails and hair.
Survive! Inside The Human Body: Vol. 1 Digestive System by Gomdori CO & Hyun-Dong Han
In this comic book, take a dive inside the human body, from your intestines to different parasites. In Magic School Bus style, Phoebe accidentally swallows a microscopic ship. The problem? The ship’s inventor and Phoebe’s friend are on the ship!
First Human Body Encyclopedia (DK First Reference)
The Everything Kids’ Science Experiments Book: Boil Ice, Float Water, Measure Gravity-challenge the World Around You! (Everything Kids Series)Human Body: A Visual EncyclopediaLook Inside Your BodyThe Fantastic Body: What Makes You Tick & How You Get SickInside Out Human Body: Explore the World’s Most Amazing Machine-You!
The Everything KIDS Human Body Book by Sheri Amsel
What happens after you swallow your food? Why do you need air? Why is your blood red? Discover fun facts about everything relating to the human body in this straightforward and informative
Little Explorers: My Amazing Body by Ruth Martin
Ideal for early elementary, this body book for little explorers is hands on and full of flaps, with engaging content and images.
Human Body: A Book With Guts! by Dan Green
Learn about the human body through fun characters explaining the human body in a first person way.
Inside Your Outside: All About the Human Body (Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library)My First Human Body BookMe and My Amazing BodyHuman Body Theater: A Non-Fiction RevueMe and My BodyThe Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body
More Great Human Body Book Suggestions
Why I Sneeze, Shiver, Hiccup, and Yawn by Melvin Berger
Why DOES your body sneeze, shiver, hiccup, and yawn? Help your early elementary students learn about these natural reflexes with this helpful picture book.
Inside Your Outside: All About The Human Body by Tish Rabe
The Cat in the Hat takes Sally and Dick on a ride through the human body where they visit the different parts of the brain and scuba dive through the blood system!
The Busy Body Book: A Kids Guide To Fitness by Lizzy Rockwell
How do your bones and muscles work? Your body can jump, skip, skate, walk, run. This picture book focuses more on keeping an active lifestyle through healthy exercise.
Outside-In A Lift-The-Flaps Body Book by Claire Smallman
From the skin to your bone structures, explore the human body through this lift-and-flap book, aimed at early elementary students.
Muscles! Muscles In The Human Body-Anatomy For Kids by Baby iQÂ Builder Books
What makes us move? What do our muscles do? Learn about muscles and more in this short book for kids!
See Inside Your Body by Katie Daynes & Colin King
Give kids a visual look inside the human body with this flap-book for kids, as they learn about their amazing body.
Hear Your Heart by Paul Showers
How does your heart work, and what can you do to keep it healthy? Introduce early elementary students to their hearts and the wonderful things it does!
The Magic School Bus Inside The Human Body by Joanna Cole
Ms. Frizzle takes her students inside their magical school bus, and inside their friend Arnold! They explore Arnold’s digestive system hands-on!
My First Human Body Book by Donald M. Silver & Patricia J. Wynne
This book is filled with 28 ready-to-color illustrations aimed at helping kids explore their muscular, skeletal, nervous, digestive, respiratory, and immune systems.
More Human Body Activities
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Encourage your kids to learn more about the human body with these amazing anatomy books! I’m sure these books can answer their questions about how our body works.
Preschool Human Body Activities
Human Body Printables for Kids
Body Systems Science Book by Totschooling
We took the kids to a museum a couple years ago where they got to play in a large intestine (tunnels). They got a kick out ofthe fact that they entered through the mouth and came out the…well…you know:) These would have paired well with the trip.
My kids would love that.