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Cover of Inside Me: Always Busy, illustrated by Leah Bury
Inside Me · Book 2

Always Busy

A child can sit perfectly still and their cells are still working. This one follows a single protein, from the instruction for it written in the DNA to the job it ends up doing somewhere in the body.

$16.99Paperback, 42 pages
  • Ages2 to 5
  • Pages42
  • Size8.5 × 8.5 in, paperback
  • IllustrationFull color
  • Written byLeah Bury, PhD, cell biologist and science illustrator

Look inside.

Three spreads from the book, as printed.

Book spread: the magnifying glass over a cell, showing colored proteins at work

Proteins at work, before the book explains where they came from.

Book spread: the magnifying glass on the nucleus, showing the DNA double helix

The DNA in the nucleus.

Book spread: a ribosome reading RNA and building a protein bead by bead

A ribosome building a protein, bead by bead.

About the book

What happens in it.

The book goes to where the work happens. The instruction book folded up in the nucleus, the copied note that carries one instruction out of it, the builders waiting outside that read the note, and then the protein they make, off doing its job somewhere in a child's body.

It is DNA, RNA, ribosomes and proteins, named properly, and none of it is simplified into something untrue. It is the same sequence a cell biologist would put on a slide, illustrated so a two year old can sit through it.

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