Title:
The Brain
Author: Seymour
Simon
Illustrator: Seymour Simon
Publisher: Morrow
Junior Books, New York
Genre: Information
Level: Upper
Number of Pages: 32
Pub. Date: 1997
Summary: The
book gives an abundance of information about the brain and how it functions. It
tells about the nerves that go to the brain, what they are called and what they
do. It also follows a single message as it moves through millions of nerve
calls from the finger to the brain. Among countless other facts, it gives a
description of the different parts of the brain and what each of them are in
charge of. In the end it tells about how sometimes things can go wrong with the
brain from headaches to strokes, but all in all it’s what really makes you,
you!
Critique: The
information in this book sounds very accurate, but there aren’t a lot of
sources mentioned in the book. The author does thank an M.D. for the careful
reading of the manuscript of this book and provides a note about how the
photographs in the book were taken by all kinds of amazing new scanners that
help doctors see the brain and nervous system. The book was published in 1997 so there is
most likely some additional information or more advanced pictures of brain activity
that isn’t included in this book. The information is divided up into pages,
like there is one full page on the cerebrum and its cortex and another on the
brain stem, but I would have liked to see some text features such as headings
or captions, which are not present, to make the information easier to navigate.
Response: I
learned a lot about the brain from this book! I think the most interesting
topic that I
read about was the spinal cord. The graphic for it was incredible
showing 31 pairs of spinal nerves that branch out between the vertebrae and go
to all parts of the body. Each pair of nerves contains thousands of sensory and
motor neurons. I thought this information was really interesting to think about
how 31 pairs of nerves can control so much movement.
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