Science Comics: The Digestive System: A Tour Through Your Guts by Viola, Jason

In Science Comics: The Digestive System, visit the inside of your mouth, stomach, liver, intestines, and other organs that make up the gastrointestinal tract!

Your guide to the gut is a friendly bacterium who will take you on a journey beyond imagination. Uncover how food is transformed into nutrients! Explore strange and dangerous glands! Behold the wonders of saliva, mucus, and vomit! Writer Jason Viola and illustrator Andy Ristaino provide a trip to the toilet you will never forget!

Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic--dinosaurs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, robots, and more! Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty-year-old with a secret passion for airplanes, these graphic novels are for you!

Author: Jason Viola
Publisher: First Second
Published: 03/23/2021
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781250204042
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.8
Point Value: 2
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 516050 / Digestive System: A Tour Through Your Guts


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 11/01/2020 pg. 87
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2021

About the Author

Jason Viola lives in Massachusetts, where he co-founded the Boston Comic Arts Foundation and helps produce comics festivals throughout the region. He is also the author of Science Comics: Elephants, Science Comics: The Digestive System, and Science Comics: Polar Bears. Jason lives outside Boston with his wife and son.

Andy Ristaino is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. He has worked as a designer and story boarder on Adventure Time for Cartoon Network and in his spare time likes to draw all sorts of creatures and aliens. He's had several trade paperbacks published, including Night of the Living Vidiots, Escape from Dullsville, and The Babysitter!