Blood

Martin Bolod, Alan Baker, Sholto Walker

HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2010 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 96 pages

What is blood? How does it help us? And how does it travel around the body? Answering all these questions, this book also describes what the heart and lungs do, as well as illustrating the differences between veins, arteries and capillaries.

About the author

Alan Baker has written and illustrated over 40 books of his own, six of which have been chosen for the book of the year list. These include the Little Rabbit series which have sold over 750,000 copies to date worldwide. White Rabbit's color book was a 2008 IBBY choice. His style consists of a pencil rough with final artwork rendered using traditional methods - watercolour, pen and ink, airbrush, and crayon. The illustration is produced as separate elements and then composed and colour adjusted in photoshop using layers. Alan Baker has won the Benson & Hedges illustrators gold award, Gold Creative Circle award, Silver Campaign Press award. He also gained a IRA/CBC. Childrens Choice award & was a Flair Creative match winner.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Blood; Collins Big Cat Series; Collins big cat. Lime, band 11
• Authors: Martin Bolod, Alan Baker, Sholto Walker
• Illustrated by: Alan Baker, Sholto Walker
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2010
• ISBN: 0007336217, 9780007336210
• Length: 96 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Readers / Intermediate; Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Biology; Language Arts & Disciplines / General