What Happens to a Hamburger

(Paperback)

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Read and find out about your digestive system in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.

What happens to food when you eat it Read and find out about your digestive system and how it turns food into energy your body can use.

This is a clear and appealing science book for early elementary age kids, both at home and in the classroom. It's a Level 2 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explores more challenging concepts for children in the primary grades. The 100+ titles in this leading nonfiction series are:

• hands-on and visual
• acclaimed and trusted
• great for classrooms

Top 10 reasons to love LRFOs:

• Entertain and educate at the same time
• Have appealing, child-centered topics
• Developmentally appropriate for emerging readers
• Focused; answering questions instead of using survey approach
• Employ engaging picture book quality illustrations
• Use simple charts and graphics to improve visual literacy skills
• Feature hands-on activities to engage young scientists
• Meet national science education standards
• Written/illustrated by award-winning authors/illustrators & vetted by an expert in the field
• Over 130 titles in print, meeting a wide range of kids' scientific interests

Books in this series support the Common Core Learning Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) standards. Let's-Read-and-Find-Out is the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series.

Author Bio

Paul Showers wrote twenty books for the Lets-Read-and-Find-Out Science series, including such favorites as What Happens to a Hamburger and Where Does the Garbage Go Mr. Showers worked on the Detroit Free Press, the New York Herald Tribune, and, for thirty years, the Sunday New York Times.