The long-awaited reprint of the book, which was published in Russian in 1988 by the Mir publishing house in a small edition, parents chased it around the shops, and the children lined up in libraries.
The long-awaited reprint of the book, which was published in Russian in 1988 by the Mir publishing house in a small edition, parents chased it around the shops, and the children lined up in libraries. (Many of those grown-up children admit that it was then that they became fascinated with anatomy, and some even chose medicine as their profession.) Carol Donner came up with a safe move for her «action-packed anatomy novel»: the twins Max and Molly, along with the ginger cat Baxter, become tiny and enter the human body. There, inside, an amazing journey awaits them: from the stomach to the intestines, from the intestines through the capillaries to the heart, from there to the lungs, to the brain, to the eyeball, to the Eustachian tube … Such a book (also with very unexpected and informative pictures by the author — a professional illustrator of medical literature) is, of course, much more interesting to study than a dry encyclopedia or a reference book — it captivates even those guys who don’t really like to read. And perhaps it is better to read it before you have to understand the structure of the human body in school anatomy lessons: after such a vivid book adventure, this subject will no longer seem either boring or too complicated.
PINK GIRAFFE, 156 p.
Daria Rybina