Checkups, Shots, and Robots

True Stories Behind How Doctors Treat Us

David Rickert

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Minedition (imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc)
10 December 2024

Family & health; Science & technology: general interest (Children's&YA)

Why do I have to get a checkup? My head hurts-make it better! Kids can explore the science and history behind common medical practices and procedures and learn about health problems, treatments, and medical breakthroughs in this funny and educational graphic-format nonfiction book.

Why do I have to get a checkup? My head hurts-make it better! Kids can explore the science and history behind common medical practices and procedures and learn about health problems, treatments, and medical breakthroughs in this funny and educational graphic-format nonfiction book.

Common childhood illnesses and injuries and the methods to cure or treat them can lead to questions. This book offers answers, showing how people learned how to understand and care for the human body, from ancient times to the present day. Young readers will travel back in time-sometimes thousands of years-to cultures all over the globe to learn how and why medical breakthroughs occurred. They'll meet key people from medical history along the way, including early surgeons working without anesthesia and grave robbers seeking knowledge of human anatomy. The science behind antibiotics and how stitches work are two of many topics in this fascinating book, which includes projects and activities for both the classroom and home.

By: David Rickert
Imprint: Minedition (imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc)
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 263mm, Width: 211mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 675g
ISBN: 9781662670176
ISBN 10: 1662670176
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 10 December 2024
Recommended Age: From 8 to 12 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Rickert is an educator, author and illustrator of comics, and the creator of Pizza, Pickles, and Apple Pie. After receiving his teaching degree from Ohio State University, David had an itch to create comics for education. Working with the Teachers Pay Teachers marketplace, teachers around the world have embraced his comics as an effective way to teach English to young readers.

Reviews for Checkups, Shots, and Robots: True Stories Behind How Doctors Treat Us

"""Rickert (Pizza, Pickles, and Apple Pie) offers an antidote to skepticism and misinformation surrounding medical science in this high-energy, occasionally irreverent comics-style work...The author doesn’t shy away from depicting incidents of questionable or alarming medical ethics, bias, and unintended consequences, particularly involving the care of people of color. Still, readers will come away feeling that, when it comes to medical innovation, they’re standing on the shoulders of giants. Lively back matter includes how Rickert rendered historical figures and instructions on researching and creating one’s own comic."" —Publishers Weekly"