I Am a Living Thing by: Bobbie Kalman

Genre: Non-Fiction

Publisher: Crabtree

Copyright Date: 2008

Number of Pages: 24

Reading Level: 6-9

Summary:

This book begins by explaining why humans are living things. Living things need water, air, and food. IT talksa bout how humans are made up of cells and it goes into talking about what a cells are and what they do for our bodies for instance: brain cells make our bodies work. Humans have five senses - touch, sight, smell, hear, and taste! It then goes into to talking about what humans need. What do humans need? They need water because our bodies are made up of mostly water, air because air is what we breathe, sunlight because it keeps our bodies warm, energy because it is the power to do things, food because energy comes from food, people because humans need to feel like they belong to someone, and last of all humans need other things such as a home and clothing. For each one of those needs it goes into detail and it ask questions to the reader about different things such as water and vegetables and such. At the end, the book talks about how humans grow and change and it discussing how some babies are born from eggs but mammals aren't. IT talks about how things change and so do humans!

Who would benefit from reading this book/who would I recommend this book to?

This is a good book to give children who are noticing the changes that they are going through. It is a very simple read but it gives a lot of information about the needs of humans that rapidly changing students would benefit from reading.

What problems/conflicts could this book potentially cause?

THis is a very innocent book that has nothing of quesitonable nature in it.

My Reaction:

I thought it was cute. It was a simple read and, while it doesn't teach anything that adults already know, it would definately teach little kids about why humans are the way they are.