How can you jump, read, and smell yummy food? Find out in this easy-to-read introduction to the human brain by Theodor Seuss Geisel Honoree Paul Meisel.

Find all of the answers to your brain in this accessible picture book about the body's most amazing organ and the systems it controls. What does your brain look like? Like a gray sponge. How does it tell my body to do all those incredible things? Nerves that send messages to every part of your body. Discover how your body can dribble a soccer ball, shiver in the cold, and taste yummy tacos. Learn about the five parts of the brains, what they do, and how they work. 

Hooray for My Brain! breaks down vocabulary like cerebellum and neurons with simple, straightforward language. Fun-filled, energetic artwork shows kids the connections between how they play and what’s going on inside their body. Award-winning author and illustrator Paul Meisel makes the human brain easy to understand for the youngest readers.

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
 
Contributor Bio(s)
 
Paul Meisel, who holds a master's degree in graphic design from Yale University, has received two Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Awards as well as American Library Association Notable Awards for See Me Run and I See a Cat, both I Like to Read books. My Awesome Summer by P. Mantis was honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for Excellence in Science Books, and The Schmutzy Family, written by Marilyn Rosenberg and illustrated by Paul Meisel, was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist.

Author Residence: Connecticut