Looking after your health by Caroline Young
Usborne, 2020. ISBN: 9781474982757. 224pp., pbk.
(Age: 8+) While we teach our younger students about eating well,
exercising and getting enough sleep, the emphasis on maintaining
physical health seems to drop off after those early years and while
there is a growing awareness of encouraging positive mental health,
our bodies don't get much attention in literature for some time
until puberty approaches.
This book is a part of a series from Usborne targeting those middle
years readers from about 8 years, encouraging them to stay aware of
and be committed to the issues they encountered at an earlier
age. Using information in accessible chunks accompanied by
lots of black and white images, the book tackles aspects of good
health such as diet, sleep, exercise, and mental health, providing
more in-depth information that respects the reader's growing
maturity, understanding and search for knowledge. As usual there are
also the Quicklinks
which offer more to explore.
Young people with questions that they might be reticent to ask, for
whatever reason, will appreciate this book, as well as those who are
keen to maximise their well-being as they grow and develop.
Barbara Braxton