Squirt!: The Most Interesting Book You’ll Ever Read about Blood

by Trudee Romanek, Rose Cowles (Illustrator)

In the eighth title in the Mysterious You series, go with the flow and learn all about blood and the circulatory system. Topics include what blood's made from, how it moves around our body, the role of the heart, and how our organs clean our blood. Discover that over your lifetime your heart will beat roughly 2.5 billion times, that by the time you're an adult your blood vessels will be long enough to reach around the earth -- twice! and that only about 60 people in the whole world have the rare K zero blood type.

Genres: Nonfiction, Science, Juvenile, Childrens

40 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

As a kid, Trudee Romanek enjoyed reading, singing, and playing, pretending the porch railing was a horse she could ride and putting on puppet shows. She used to daydream about becoming a veterinarian or a singer, but never a writer. The only children's writers she knew about lived in England.

Her love on books took her to university for English and drama sand into the field of editing, first textbooks and then trade children's books. As the editor of Books from OWL, she learned lots working with talented non-fiction writers such as Jay Ingram, Kathy Ferris, Elizabeth MacLeod, and Sylvia Funston. Once Trudee had a family, she worked from home as a freelance editor of non-fiction and picture books and began to write small projects for magazines and educational publishers. Each project bolstered Trudee’s interest in writing and her confidence in her own abilities until, gradually, writing became her primary focus.

Trudee’s books have been nominated for many awards, including The Science in Society Children’s Book Award, Silver Birch Award, Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award, and Red Cedar Information Book Award, which she won in 2006/2007 for her book Aha! The Most Interesting Book You'll Ever Read About Intelligence.

She has dabbled in writing plays and even a musical and her first novel, Raising the Stakes, was published in October 2015.

Reviews

[SaraKat · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really great review of all the different jobs that blood does, where it comes from, and what other organs it works with to make the body function. The information is presented in palatable chunks with accompanying pictures. The information is more in depth than most elementary students need, but might interest some who just like the topic. There are some 'try this' type experiments that are easy to do and might be fun for children to do. The illustrations are colorful and detailed.

[Sherry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent information on heart, blood and circulatory system. Read it aloud to my 5 year old granddaughter. Interesting, simple experiments demonstrate many facts.

[Tara Jolley]

Informative. Has a lot of interesting information. Some of it was a refresher.. other information was new to me.

[Rolf · Rating 4 out of 5]

Informative and interesting for kids.

[Marissa J. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book provides factual information about blood in the human body.

The use of diagrams, charts, and labeling allow the reader to get a full comprehension of what the text is informing them about. The illustrator also uses columns with different colored backgrounds to be able to incorporate different bits of information without have to put the information on different pages. The most interesting portion of this book that I found was a chart about blood types. It shows the reader what possible blood types they could be depending on which blood types their parents are. Overall I think this could possibly be the most fun/interesting book about blood to ever be written.

[Edward Creter · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book of blood (no relation to the Clive Barker books of bloody lore) has it all--everything you need to know about blood and the history of bloodcaring thru the ages (but were too blissfully ignorant and naïve to ask). It also has vampires, Aztecs and hockey playing kids with half a heart. What we in the business of book reviewing call TMI (too much info) on some things and NEI (not enough info) on others, so I can't QUITE recommend this one. There's better ways of showing the value of blood and the heart than this. I wonder what "blood money" bankrolled this one.

[Sherri · Rating 5 out of 5]

K is on a non fiction kick --with help from the children's librarian, she picked out lots of books about the body. She really enjoyed this one. It's a bit difficult for a 1st grader, but the pictures and reading it in small doses worked for us! We'll be getting others in this series, I'm sure.

[Beth · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Christine · Rating 4 out of 5]

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