Do Not Lick This Book
Part of the collectionDo Not Lick This Book→Interactive, giggly science picture books that teach microbes and anatomy through real microscope images and touch-the-page prompts; a joy to read aloud again and again.
- Books2
- Arcs1
- Span2017–2019
- StatusUnknown
The series
At a glance.
Idan Ben-Barak and Julian Frost's interactive science picture books make the invisible workings of the body feel enormous, hilarious and completely fascinating. The Eve Pownall Award-winning Do Not Lick This Book invites readers to carry Min, a single microbe, from the glaciers of a tooth to the jungle of a shirt, using real scanning electron-microscope photographs. Its companion, Argh! There's a Skeleton Inside You!, has two bumbling aliens assemble a working human hand layer by layer, skeleton, muscle and skin, so children learn anatomy while helping out. Both books thrive on participation, tilt, touch, rub and blow on the page, pairing genuine science with bright, funny cartoon art. Joyful, daft and rewarding of endless rereading, they are ideal for reading aloud to the very young.
Interactive, giggly science picture books that teach microbes and anatomy through real microscope images and touch-the-page prompts; a joy to read aloud again and again.
Companion titles rather than a continuing story; either can be read first. Do Not Lick This Book (2017) came before Argh! There's a Skeleton Inside You! (2019).
One arc
The shape of the series.
- IStandalone collection arcLow sensitivity
Idan Ben-Barak's interactive science books
Companion interactive science picture books that teach microbes and human anatomy through real microscope photos and hands-on page play.
These are companion titles built on the same joyful idea rather than a continuing narrative. Do Not Lick This Book, winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia's Eve Pownall Award for information books, sends microbe Min on a giddy tour across a child's tooth, shirt and book, shown in genuine electron-microscope photography. Argh! There's a Skeleton Inside You! has aliens Quort and Oort build a working human hand piece by piece to fix their spaceship, introducing bones, muscles and skin along the way. Both invite the reader to tilt, touch and blow on the page, wrapping real biology in bright cartoon art and laugh-out-loud participation that rewards being read again and again.
Fit check
Right for your reader?
Where the series lands by age
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- Best fit · 3–7
- Read aloud · 3–7
- Independent · 5–8
Reluctant-reader friendliness
Very high
Read-aloud quality
Excellent
Adult crossover
High
Grows with the reader
Not especially
Sensitivity envelope
Low overall, and consistent.
Where it sits
In conversation with other series.
Similar in feel
Different shelves, same wavelength.
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