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Cover of My First Cells: DNA and Division, illustrated by Leah Bury
My First Cells · Book 2

DNA and Division

The second of the high contrast books, about how a cell copies itself. Eight stages of mitosis first, then where the instructions being copied came from, down through the chromosomes to DNA.

$14.99Paperback, 38 pages
  • Ages0 to 12 months
  • Pages38
  • Size8.5 × 8.5 in, paperback
  • IllustrationHigh contrast black and white
  • Written byLeah Bury, PhD, cell biologist and science illustrator

Look inside.

Three spreads from the book, as printed.

Book spread: a grown-up's note beside a high-contrast illustration of chromosomes at metaphase

Metaphase, the fourth of eight stages.

Book spread: a grown-up's note beside a high-contrast illustration of three generations of a family

Inheritance, where the second half starts.

Book spread: a grown-up's note beside a high-contrast illustration of the DNA double helix

DNA, the last illustration in the book.

About the book

What happens in it.

Sixteen illustrations in two halves. The first is the eight stages of mitosis, one cell copying itself and dividing into two, which is how a body grows and how it heals. The second is where the copied instructions came from, starting with the traits a child got from their parents and going down through the nucleus and the chromosomes to DNA itself.

Every left hand page has a short note for whoever is reading it out loud, so the book works flat on a play mat at six weeks and still has something in it years later.

Pack 3 · Mitosis

The eight stages of cell division, as printable cards, a sequencing sheet and coloring sheets. Free.

More books

The other four.