Your Body Battles a Broken Bone

Your Body Battles a Broken Bone   By Vicki Cobb   Published in 2009   32 Pages

This book is another one in Vicki Cobb's series on how the body repairs itself. The format is similar to "Your Body Battles a Skinned Knee". You get a combination of cute drawn images combined with electron microscope photos of cross sections of bone, osteocytes, marrow, stem cells, and fibroblasts.

There are also some good x-ray images as well. Overall, this is a cool read aloud that would be sure to resonate with students. As with the other books in the series, students can readily connect the information to real life experiences.

Also, I am reminded that we have some great women authors of science books. It is well worth pointing that out to the students when talking about gender stereotypes.