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Nick Arnold illustrated by Dave Smith in the series style of Tony De Saulles
Horrible Science Handbooks: Beastly Body Experiments
Scholastic (96 pages) 9781407103594
Each snippet of information about body parts and functions is accompanied by a practical, small-scale, something-to-do suggestion. So Skin Moisture has an experiment including the need for a hand - 'You should find one attached to your wrist' - with the extra 'Terrible Tip': 'it helps if the hand is not the one you write with'. That's the style but, as always, there is a lot here disguised in among such throwaway humour.

The 'Horribles'
The various series all with 'Horrible' in the title are incredibly popular paperback books crowded with jokey drawings and packed with information always giving the nasty, gory, disastrous or cruelly unfortunate prominence. The 'Horrible Histories' started it all and seem to go on and on finding new punning titles and themes, but all these books contain a great deal of information presented in an obviously successful, attractive format. New for 2008 are some 96-page variants named 'Handbooks' with wipeable bendy plastic covers and in full colour.

Other titles in the 'Horribles' series:
Horrible Histories Handbooks: The Horrible History of the World: in Blood-Curdling Colour
Horrible Histories Handbooks: Villains!
Horrible Geography Handbooks: Wild Animals: in Earth-Shattering Colour
Horrible Geography: The Horrible Geography of the World