My Amazing Body: A First Look at Health and Fitness

By Pat Thomas and Lesley Harker

Are there children in your life who are thinking about their health and physical fitness? This book will help explain everything! It will explore the importance of a good diet and plenty of exercise and encourage kids to make positive decisions about caring for themselves. Kids discover that even healthy people get ill sometimes, but that our bodies show real grit and have special abilities to protect us and restore our health.

Parents, teachers, and gift givers will find:

• language that is simple, direct, and easier for younger children to understand
• information about health and physical fitness
• a helpful book written by a psychotherapist and counselor
• a whole series of books for children to explore emotional issues

The A First Look At series promotes positive interaction among children, parents, and teachers, and encourage kids to ask questions and confront social and emotional questions that sometimes present problems. Books feature appealing full-color illustrations on every page plus a page of advice to parents and teachers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Release date: May 1, 2002
• ISBN: 9781438083940

Pat Thomas

Pat Thomas is an American psychotherapist, who specialises in healthcare and environmental issues. She was appointed editor of The Ecologist magazine in 2007, where she was previously Health Editor. Her journalism has been widely published in the national press and she regularly appears on radio programmes as well as on BBC News, Sky News, Carlton Granada Talk TV, LBC and The World Service. She lives in London.

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[jlaurendine-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

An easy to understand introduction to health, fitness and exercise for young kids.