Human Body Theater: A Non-Fiction Revue by Wicks, Maris

Welcome to the Human Body Theater, where your master of ceremonies is going to lead you through a theatrical revue of each and every biological system of the human body! Starting out as a skeleton, the MC puts on a new layer of her costume (her body) with each "act." By turns goofy and intensely informative, the Human Body Theater is always accessible and always entertaining.
Maris Wicks is a biology nerd, and by the time you've read this book, you will be too! Harnessing her passion for science (and her background as a science educator for elementary and middle-school students), she has created a comics-format introduction to the human body that will make an expert of any reader -- young or old!

Author: Maris Wicks
Publisher: First Second
Published: 10/06/2015
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.10w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781596439290
Age Range: 10-14

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 177759 / Human Body Theater


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/20/2015
School Library Journal 09/01/2015 pg. 190
Booklist 09/15/2015 pg. 52
Shelf Awareness 10/09/2015
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 12/01/2015

About the Author
Maris Wicks lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. She has harnessed the power of her various biological systems to draw comics for Adhouse Books, Tugboat Press, and Spongebob Comics, and has written stories for Image and DC Comics. Wicks is the author of Human Body Theater and the illustrator of New York Times bestselling Primates, with Jim Ottaviani. When Maris is not drawing comics, she can be found prepping slides for her collection of vintage microscopes. She's especially proud of her pulmonary system.