Caring for Your Body

It's important to stay hydrated! Readers find out why in this age-appropriate look at the reasons why we need water and how hydration can help us feel our best. Scientific facts are presented alongside self-care strategies to create a unique guide to wellness for young readers. As early learners check out the achievable text, eye-catching fact boxes, and colorful photographs, they feel empowered to take responsibility for the care of their body. By supporting the development of healthy hydration habits, this volume helps young readers build a strong foundation for their mental and physical health.

Nutrition plays an important part in both our physical and mental health, and readers discover how in this age-appropriate guide to the relationship between food and self-care. The supportive, empowering tone encourages readers to make informed choices when it comes to feeding themselves and to understand the facts behind food and how it can make us feel. This introduction to a basic human need and how to meet it is filled with facts, full-color photographs, and positive language that fosters a sense of personal responsibility and self-love in young readers.

Why do we need warmth? Readers find out in this introduction to an important aspect of self-care. Finding ways to keep warm can help us stay safe and healthy in cold places and during snowy winters, and it can also help our mental health. Warmth helps our immune system, can relax our muscles, and keeps us alive! Readers develop a stronger understanding of this basic human need and the ways they can meet it with the help of at-level text, fact boxes, and colorful photographs. Along the way, they are shown self-care strategies to use now and in the future.