SCIENCE
Davies, Nicola

What's Eating You?: Parasites--The Inside Story

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Neal Layton. Davies states, "there are more than 430 different kinds of parasites that can live on a human body...or in one," then presents examples. What makes the often-gory details easier to stomach are Davies's accessible, pun-filled explanations of the science and Layton's cartoon illustrations, which use anthropomorphism to great effect. Even readers who are a mite squeamish may be sucked in. Glos., ind.

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