About this item
A celebration of the amazing human machine and a life on the move!Your amazing body can jump, sprint, twist, and twirl. Your body is built to move.Lizzy Rockwell explains how your bones and muscles, heart and lungs, nerves and brain all work together to keep you on the go. Kids walk and skate and tumble through these pages with such exuberance that even sprouting couch potatoes will want to get up and bounce aroundand thats the ultimate goal. Studies show that American kids are becoming more sedentary and more overweight and that they carry these tendencies with them into adolescence and adulthood. Experts agree that we need to help kids make physical activity a life-long habit. Through education, information, and encouragement, this book aims to inspire a new generation of busy bodies!,.
About the Author
Lizzy Rockwell has been creating picture books since 1989. Much of what she knows about making books, she learned as a child. Her parents, Anne and Harlow Rockwell made books in their home studio in Connecticut, when Lizzy and her brother and sister were growing up. As an adult, Lizzy collaborated as illustrator on 19 books written by her mother. Her favorite things to draw are animals, plants, landscapes, and children's faces. She writes on topics of natural science and child wellness. Lizzy believes that, "Being read to on the lap of a loving adult is as essential to a young child'sdevelopment as the nourishment of food. ... A book is the first work of art that a child willexperience. Art feeds the soul. It connects us to our shared human experience and helps make sense of the mysteries of the universe."Lizzy lives and works from her home studio in Bridgeport, CT
