This book combines beautiful water color illustrations with amazing facts about our body it's microbiome.

This book teaches all about gut health and the foods that best support our bodies and the microscopic flora growing inside it! Perfect book for teaching basic gut health or for the budding little scientist in your life.

As always, thank you to the publisher and netgalley for providing me a copy in exchange for an honest.

What a colorful way to learn about your intestines!

A GARDEN IN YOUR BELLY is an easy way for kids to learn about the microbes in their body that help keep them alive and well. But it's really the illustrations that make this book. The colors are bright and fun, showing tiny creatures in a swirling, colorful river.

The storyline didn't hook my daughter's attention very much but she was captivated by the illustrations.

Definitely a book I recommend for kids who are interested in learning about how the body works.

A Garden in Your Belly by Masha D'yans is a fun children book. A great help for kids to start liking veggies

Thank you NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

The cover is colorful and gets the job done. It gives you a basic idea of what's going to happen in the book.

My kids and I LOVED reading this!

I'll definitely be looking out for other work by this author.

Fun book about what goes on inside your belly! My kids love nonfiction picture books and this one was great.

A beautiful book about your guts, specifically what lives in your guts. Using a garden to explain the microorganisms growing in the intestines works well; feed the plants good fertilizer, and you'll have a lovely, helpful garden growing in your belly; feed the garden bad fertilizer, and you'll get weeds that will make your garden sick. There's all kind of interesting tidbits of information in here, and the fabulously colorful, happy illustrations make you want to feed the microorganisms lots of healthy foods to make them happy and healthy. Definitely recommended!

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This festive season you will be overworking your microbiome. As a thank you, learn about your microbiome by reading the book, A Garden in Your Belly by Marsha D’Yans (@mashadyans)⠀
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Book blurb:⠀
Did you know there’s a garden in your belly? Your belly is full of tiny creatures - and they love to eat! Come on a journey through the river of your gut and visit the microbiome, a garden of microscopic creatures that affect your hunger, health, and emotions! Along the way, learn how to take care of your microbes and make a happier, healthier you.⠀
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This book teaches about the microbiome in our gut. The colorful alien-like illustrations of the microorganisms captured my heart. This book also teaches us to eat healthily and stay away from junk food. At the end of the book are amazing gut facts. Did you know that your microbiome is as unique as your fingerprints?⠀
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A must-read if your kid is interested in STEM-related books or you can start with this one. Thank you @netgalley and @lernerbooks for the eARC.⠀
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Category: children’s picture book ⠀
Age: Grade 2 - Grade 5

The microbiome fascinates me. Not just because it's this whole world inside of your body but because it is vital to good health. We have this idea that the body does its thing all on its own but that simply is not true. We can't digest without the microbiome. Microscopic life protects and cleans our skin. It's amazing. Its also complex and we can't fully understand it. That makes it a tough subject for a kids book. How do you ex.plain something to kids when we don't fully understand it? D'yans has handled it correctly, making it very representative and artistic. Not a lot of hard facts, more fact based statements. By starting us with the image of a garden and the various life forms in it, the way they work together for the health of the garden on the whole we have a vague structure to consider the microbiome. We don't get into the hows, just the whats. It aids in digestion. We need it. Everyone's is different. It gets started when we are born, a gift from our mother, but is changed by our environment and experiences. With highly artistic illustrations, this book occupies a strange place between non-fiction and a picture book, but it's a solid way to start understanding a complicated idea.

I am amazed at how this book handled such a complex topic. Even adults find microbiology difficult but this made it so incredibly easy to understand that it could be fundamental in building STEM skills in children.

This was a good book about microorganisms. It's all about why you should eat healthily. The book is very colorful as well, which is fun.

A super cool and unique look at the microbiome, its benefits and how to take care of it. Lovely watercolor pictures.

Love, love, love! My other sidegig is all about gut health and this book was perfection for explaining the basics of gut health to kids. Purchased it, shared it, love it!

This is a very interesting and very successful way of teaching kids about the gut or intestines, what they do, and what is good and bad for it. It introduces microbes as things that live inside you, good and bad, that need certain things to flourish. The illustrations are a great watercolor that help get the points across, but also swallow the reader in a visual color medium that is perfect for long swimming reads.

What a fascinating book on microorganisms! This book is beautifully illustrated and easy to understand. This will be a great reference to teach children about gut bacteria. It's presented in such a way to show the wonder of microorganisms and emphasizes that we need to take care of our bodies. I would recommend this for children in elementary school.

Thank you Lerner Publishing Group and NetGalley for providing this ARC.

What a fun way to teach kids about eating healthy! As someone with a chronic autoimmune condition (that started when I was 15), I can say that this type of information needs to be shared at a young age! Simply saying “no you can’t have that, it’s bad for you” isn’t going to motivate a kid to keep up healthy habits as they grow. But by understanding what goes on inside their bodies depending on the food they put into it they will be much more likely to make smart choices.
This was written in a fun, easy to understand way that kids will enjoy.

If you have never thought of a picture book about intestines and stomach contents, much less one that is clever and beautiful, get ready! I first heard of A Garden in Your Belly written and illustrated by Masha D’Yans with its book birthday tomorrow, at a Highlights virtual workshop on writing science and nature themes for children. I was intrigued at the concept and looked to see if Net Galley offered an advance reading copy. Not only did they offer one, they sent it to my phone so the beautiful illustrations were available! (Advance copies on my Kindle are fine for print, but lack a good illustration component.)

My first impression was shock that these gorgeous illustrations are to explain intestines! Masha uses the metaphor of a river running through a garden to present the belly microbiome filled with microorganisms. In clever text and quips in conversation bubbles, she describes the good and bad microorganisms in the human body and the ways they affect a person’s physical and mental health, and does it in a way that will entertain as well as inform the children who read it. For instance, she has the weeds liking such things as junk food and sweets and the good guys liking fruit, veggies, nuts, and yogurt.

In addition to the child who will enjoy and learn from the book, there is backmatter explaining the microbiome, a glossary, and some amazing facts that the adult who is reading aloud will enjoy and learn from. They certainly didn’t make science books this interesting when I was growing up. In a win-win, the child enjoys learning about his or her body, and the adult reader gets a basis for future conversations about why fruit snacks are preferable to Fritos.

A Garden in Your Belly: Meet the Microbes in Your Gut, written and illustrated by Masha D'yans, is currently scheduled for release on October 6 2020. Your belly is full of tiny creatures—and they love to eat! Along the river of your gut, tiny creatures move, eat, and grow. Learn more about the garden of microscopic flora growing inside the body and come on a journey that explains an important biological concept: the microbiome, the health of which affects everything in our bodies. Did you know that some foods are better for your microbiome (and you!) than others? Striking, original watercolor illustrations keep things from getting too gross. Informational back matter goes further into the science of the microbiome and reveals amazing facts about the gut.

A Garden in Your Belly is a colorfully illustrated book that helps explain to young readers how important the microbiome that lives inside of all of is. The important information is written in a way that is accessible and nonthreatening, because learning that a bunch of little things live inside you could be scary to some readers. I think the artwork helps keep the tone light and fun, and still shows the danger of not taking care of our gut health without being over the top. The message is very well conveyed, and I think it is well done. I really enjoyed the more in depth information at the end of the book, interesting facts, and the glossary included in the end pages. I think this book would be a good addition to school, library, and classroom shelves. It would also be a good tool in households where someone might have digestive health problems, that make this information even more important and relevant.

Who would have thought that a book about microorganisms could be so pretty? With pages filled with information on the importance of our internal microbiome & how to keep ourselves healthy this book is packed with important educational content. I would probably recommend this for the older kiddos rather than the younger crowd but could see this as a great gift for a school nurse or health teacher a great book to keep on hand at any pediatricians office as well. My favorite part was definitely the art within these pages, just beautiful.

This was so pretty, with lots of colors! The perfect blend of information and fun, this kept my wiggly 4 year old’s attention and he’s very interested in his “garden”

Terrific book! It'd be a really good addition to elementary school lessons about the human body and about metaphors. Upper elementary suggested. I love the usage of a garden as a metaphor for the digestive system and the beautiful illustrations. I haven't written my full review yet, but I will post it on my website (Kelly's Classroom Online) when it's done.