Lift the flap over the chest and the heart is right there, pumping. That is the whole promise of See Inside Your Body: fifty flaps that let a curious child open up a skeleton, a rib cage, a tongue and an ear and find out what is working away underneath. Katie Daynes writes the facts short and friendly, Colin King draws them big and bright, and the tiny cartoon people clambering over every organ make the anatomy feel like a place to explore rather than a diagram to memorize.

Pumping blood follows the red and blue vessels from the heart out to the fingertips. Bones and muscles sets a skeleton beside its muscles so a child can see which one pulls which. The senses walks through the eye, the ear, the nose, the tongue and the skin, flap by flap. It was written with expert advice from a Cambridge physician, so the answers hold up when the questions get hard.

This is the book a six year old carries to the dinner table to show everyone where their spleen is. Same series on our shelf: See Inside Castles, See Inside Weather and Climate, See Inside Ancient Rome and See Inside the Ancient World.