Your Amazing Skin from Outside In
By Joanne Settel and Bonnie Timmons
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It’s itchy, it’s sweaty, it’s embarrassing...but most of all, it’s fascinating! Dr. Joanne Settel has all the answers to our most burning questions in this wacky and informative book of poems about our skin.
Have you ever wondered…
Why you blush when you’re embarrassed?
Why you’ve got freckles everywhere?
Why your fingers wrinkle in the pool?
Why your friends come in all different colors?
Why mosquitoes think you’re delicious?
Why you’ve got that giant pimple on your nose?
Look no further!
With supercool facts, clever rhymes, and hilarious illustrations by Bonnie Timmons, acclaimed author Joanne Settel answers all these questions (and more!) in this fascinating, fun exploration of the science of our skin from head to toe. When she’s through, you won’t believe what your skin can do!
Joanne Settel
Dr. Joanne Settel is an award-winning writer of science books for children, including Your Amazing Skin from Outside In and Your Amazing Digestion from Mouth Through Intestine. Dr. Settel’s book Exploding Ants: Amazing Facts About How Animals Adapt was listed as one of the Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12 by the Children’s Book Council. Dr. Settel has a PhD in biology. She is a professor emeritus at Baltimore City Community College, where she taught courses in biology, anatomy, and physiology. She lives with her husband in Maryland, where she enjoys hiking, playing bridge, and gardening. Visit her online at JoanneSettel.com.
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Your Amazing Skin from Outside In - Joanne Settel
CONTENTS
PART I
What’s in This Skin? The Basics
You Won’t Believe What Skin Can Do
Layers and Layers and Layers of Skin
PART II
Blushing, Tanning, Freckled Skin
Black, Brown, White, and Pinkish Skin
Some Kids Tan and Some Kids Burn
Freckles, Freckles Everywhere
When I’m Embarrassed I Turn Red
My Fingers Get White in the Snow
PART III
Sweaty, Bumpy, Wrinkly Skin
My Fingerprints Give Me Away
I’ve Got Blue Ink All Over Me
My Fingers Wrinkle in the Pool
Goose Bumps Popped Up on My Skin
Sweaty, Sweaty Me
We’re Getting Stinky
PART IV
Cut, Bruised, Scabby Skin
I Cut My Thumb
Black and Blue and Yellow, Too
I’ve Got a Scab I Want to Pick
PART V
Itchy, Sizzling, Peeling Skin
Mosquitoes Love Me!
I’m So Itchy
Ouch! I’ve Got a Sunburn
I’m Losing My Skin!
My Skin Is Hot, But I Feel Cold
PART VI
Pimply, Blistered, Warty Skin
I’ve Got a Pimple on My Nose
I’ve Got a Blister on My Toe
I Hate This Wart
CONCLUSION
Your Skin Will Thank You, That’s for Sure!
About the Author and Illustrator
Glossary
*(Note: first appearance of glossary words appear in bold in the text.)
For More Information
Useful Websites
References and Additional Reading
Index
To Barry, who is my rock. And to Mikaela and Braydon, who are my inspiration.
—J. S.
For my beautiful, red-haired sister, Jan, who has defeated melanoma and who doggedly stays in the shade
—B. T.
PART I
WHAT’S IN THIS SKIN? THE BASICS
It peels, it heals, it itches, too.
It warms you, cools you, turns you blue.
I’ll show you how, and when we’re through,
you won’t believe what skin can do!
And that’s not all: we’ll peek inside
where different kinds of skin cells hide
and find out how each tiny cell
allows your skin to work so well.
You Won’t Believe What Skin Can Do
Skin covers you, now that’s for sure.
But really, skin does much, much more.
One thing it does is keep stuff out,
like germs, and bugs that lurk about.
But here’s a funny thing: your skin
will also let some stuff get in,
like sunlight’s UV rays, and heat,
which warms you up from head to feet.
Plus, using sunlight’s energy,
skin makes a vitamin called D:
a nutrient that scientists know
will help our bones get thick and grow.
Another way skin’s really great
is it can thermoregulate.
So summer, winter, spring, and fall
your temperature won’t change at all.
When you are hot, your skin makes sweat
’cause skin will cool when it gets wet.
And when you’re cold, your coat of skin
will help to hold your warmth within.
And one more thing! In skin, one finds
the sensing cells: so many kinds!
Cells on the top and deep within
sense all the things you feel with skin.
Some help detect what’s smooth or rough,
some if your room is warm enough,
some pick up tickles, some a touch,
some feel those shoes that pinch too much.
So clearly, it’s the job of skin
to keep things out and let things in.
To keep you warm or cool you down
and let you sense what’s all around.
COOL FACTS ABOUT SKIN
• If you could measure all your skin, you’d be surprised to learn how much there is. Our skin is the largest organ in the body. An adult man has around nineteen to twenty square feet of skin. This is almost the size of the door to your bedroom (twenty-one square feet)!
• Some animals can use their skin to breathe. Frogs, for example, have lungs, but they get most of their oxygen through their very thin skin. Eels can breathe through their skin when they move around on land. (When not on land, they use gills to get oxygen from the water.) Earthworms are the real skin breathers: They get all their oxygen this way.
Skin-breathing animals can lose a lot of water through their thin skins, so they must live in damp areas. Human skin is too thick for skin breathing, but the thickness helps keep water inside. Since people are made of more than 50 percent water, it’s important that we don’t lose too much of it to the air.
• Young caecilians eat their mother’s skin. Caecilians are legless amphibians that look like big earthworms, but they are actually related to frogs and salamanders. Caecilian moms grow extra-thick skin for their young to feed on. Yum!
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