What Happens to a Hamburger? (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) (U)

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!Children's LiteratureThe answer to the title's question is that a hamburger and all other foods eaten are 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