Editorial Review
Booklist Review of Brilliant Bodies
The Brilliant Bodies series (5 titles) quickly surveys the form and function of individual body parts with an upbeat, affirming tone. Here brows of all colors and shapes arch, quirk, and furrow. The book’s cartoonish design zooms in on photos of people’s faces—young, old, and of various ethnicities—as playful text bubbles offer succinct observations on the valuable roles eyebrows play in people’s everyday lives. In addition to noting how they filter sunlight and buffer sweat and rain, the book points out that eyebrows “help us show how we are feeling.” It also includes a “Brilliant Without” page that features someone whose body can’t grow eyebrows (still brilliant!), making this volume’s single omission its regrettable lack of a unibrow. A final diagram labels other amazing body parts for kids to know.