Joyful PhysioLogic: How Our Body Works

Simka and Zhenka, inseparable twins, arrive at their cottage in the village of Novinka, where they are greeted by a wasteland with burdock, a river up to their knees, and almost non-working internet. "Nothing interesting can happen in such a boring cottage," sighs Simka. And it's a pity! The brother and sister will not be allowed to be bored by robot Vasya - a former nanny for infants, now a walking encyclopedia, ghost Ivan Ivanych - a pre-revolutionary physiologist who experimented on himself, kitten Funtyk, and puppy Tabik. Adventures await ahead, meeting a whole company of funny magical beings, and most importantly - many discoveries and mysteries, and not fictional, but very real ones. Svetlana Lavrova's book is a wonderful combination of a funny fairy tale with a modern scientific encyclopedia on human physiology. Why is blood red, but veins are blue? Where do goosebumps come from? Why do we yawn? Why do sweet things hurt our teeth? How do the body's cells know who becomes the brain and who becomes a nail?