How Your Skeleton Works

There are 206 bones in the adult body but what's the longest bone? (The femur-thigh bone.) What are the two bones of the lower leg called? (Tibia and fibula.) Where would you fi nd your patella? (It's your kneecap.) Bones allow us to move around-they also support and protect the body, and work with muscles and joints to allow us to chew food, walk, run, twist, and turn. Discover how the bones in your body are connected and how the joints work. From head to toe, elbow to ankle, How Your Skeleton Works expertly guides you through the different parts of the body. Find out how the kneecap stays in place, how you are born with more bones than when you die, and how your legs stay in your hip joints. Each page has a color artwork to illustrate the featured part of the skeleton. Alongside informative text on the body part, there are annotations to explain particular details about the artwork. With more than 80 color artworks and expert background text, How Your Skeleton Works is an easy-to-read, highly informative guide to the human body.