hygiene

Relates basic rules for maintaining good health--adequate diet, cleanliness, exercise, rest, and regular checkups.

Contains a collection of ideas, activities, fitness tests, and exercises on taking care of the body and includes information on looking after the skin, eyes, ears, and mouth as well as keeping the body clean.

Teaches children the importance of good personal hygiene, explaining what germs are, how they are spread, and what can be done to keep healthy.

Describes ten disgusting places including coal mines, hog farms, slaughterhouses, and the dump; and explains what makes them so nasty.

Tina buys what she believes to be the perfect pair of socks and vows never to take them off, but they get so smelly her friends at school decide to take action.

Describes how soap and water, toothpaste and toothbrush, and comb and brush were invented and how they keep us clean and healthy.

Invites readers to learn healthy cleaning habits by discovering the similarities and differences between humans and animals.

Simple text and photographs discuss how to make good decisions about taking care of yourself and your body.

Describes ways that societies all over the world deal--and do not deal--with human waste, and covers the sewers of Paris, London, and New York City; examines the public toilets in India, China's biogas digesters, third world sanitation movements, the U.S. military laser elimination methods, and more.

Harriet and her mother exchange mean words when Harriet refuses to pick up her toys, until an apology saves the day and everyone sits down to a spaghetti dinner.