Author: Adam Kay
Review by: Sophia
Year Group: Year 6
Review:
This book is about the history of the human body. Who would imagine that the Egyptians thought that the brain was so useless that it was the only organ that wasn’t preserved during mummification! In fact they thought that the heart did the brain’s job and that the lungs were some sort of central heating system. In the middle ages doctors thought that the more blood and gore that was on their clothing the better. It is only from the 1700s until now that we have actually started to understand the body properly.
The whole book is very funny with Adam Kay’s robot butler making predictions (only half were actually relevant to the book) and overall I would really recommend this book to anyone who wants to hear about the history of medicine with a bit of humour in it.
Mark out of 5…
5 – Excellent