Ask the Doctor: Real Answers to 60 of Your Weirdest, Wackiest Health Questions

Get Ready for Gut-Busting Body Facts and Graphics!

From boogers to bruises, pediatrician Dr. Betty Choi answers curious questions about the weird and amazing ways our bodies work with fun, kid-friendly Q&A, and easy-to-follow comics.
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Ask the Doctor: Real Answers to 60 of Your Weirdest, Wackiest Health Questions

Get Ready for Gut-Busting Body Facts and Graphics!

From boogers to bruises, pediatrician Dr. Betty Choi answers curious questions about the weird and amazing ways our bodies work with fun, kid-friendly Q&A, and easy-to-follow comics.

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Starred Review from School Library Journal

Bodies are weird, cool, gross, and fascinating, and this book starts with the juiciest, squirmiest stuff straight from page one. Choi’s enthusiasm and clever consideration of what questions kids (and plenty of adults) puzzle over is a quirky delight—why do we have eyebrows, after all? For both young physiology fanatics and medically anxious little ones, Ho’s bubbly, bright illustrations anthropomorphize everything from kidneys to blisters to beach umbrellas, breaking down complex scientific subjects just enough to give readers a friendly entry point.

VERDICT: Entertaining and thoughtfully crafted, this is an excellent addition to every medical reference collection.

— Emilia Packard, School Library Journal

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Ask the Doctor: Real Answers to 60 of Your Weirdest, Wackiest Health Questions

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Reviews

  • There’s no one I trust more to help kids understand their bodies than Dr. Betty Choi. The illustrations, humor, and frankness of this book are sure to delight and educate children in equal measure. Parents can flip to the page that matches their child’s most perplexing questions. For clear explanations accompanied by cartoon drawings, Ask the Doctor is the perfect resource for parents, teachers, and home educators!
    Julie Bogart
    Author of The Brave Learner and Help! My Kid Hates Writing
  • Ask the Doctor perfectly blends kid-pleasing humor with the clear, simple, and accurate explanations Dr. Choi is known for. It hooks kids with the embarrassing questions we all have had, then keeps them engaged with adorably gross illustrations, a perfect amount of detail, and a ceaseless sense of awe at our bizarre bodies. I know my kids will be giggling away as they learn all the valuable information inside this book!
    Cara Florance, PhD
    Author of the Science Spell Book and the Baby Medical School series
  • As a pediatrician, I’m very familiar with the quirky questions children ask during office visits. Kids LOVE to learn about the human body, and one of the best ways to teach them is to package the information in small, digestible bites filled with humor. Dr. Choi’s book accomplishes this with the perfect blend of facts and eye-catching illustrations. I can’t wait to share it with my own patients!
    Howard Bennett, MD
    Author of The Fantastic Body: What Makes You Tick & How You Get Sick
  • Dr. Choi is back with another fun and engaging human body book for young readers. The questions addressed in this book are all things my kids have wondered, and the easy-to-digest answers are perfectly bite-sized. The energetic illustrations are the cherry on top. Perfect for all kids, especially ones who might be future healthcare workers.
    Grace Farris, MD
    Author and illustrator of Mom Milestones and See One, Do One, Teach One
  • This book is a fabulous and funny introduction to various bodily functions for curious kids. I’m impressed with how Dr. Betty Choi breaks down medical terms into easy-to-understand language while expertly addressing questions children want answers to. The text and art are a hilarious pairing, with bodily humor that will keep kids engaged and laughing. Highly recommend!
    Dow Phumiruk, MD
    Pediatrician, author, and illustrator
  • Ask the Doctor is a delight: fun, funny, matter-of-fact, reassuring, and filled with marvelous information. My own children are grown now, but they would have loved this book when they were curious youngsters! Honestly, they would probably love it still. I did.
    Catherine Newman
    Author of How to Be a Person and What Can I Say?
  • Dr. Choi puts the fun in the fundamentals of how the human body works. She and illustrator Jannie Ho take the reader on a fun trip through different parts and systems of the body, how and why things function, and what happens when things go awry. The use of humor, both in words and visuals, throughout the book is super engaging to children (and adults!). I can’t wait to share this book with my kids and my patients!
    Alice E. W. Hoyt, MD
    Author of Navigating Food Allergies: A Parent’s Guide to Care, Coverage, and Confidence
  • Get ready for a wild, wonderful ride through the amazement of how the human body functions! Dr. Choi takes questions that kids (and many adults) ponder about their bodies and the world around them and provides an answer to each curiosity with a fascinating, digestible answer that will really make sense to kids of all ages. And I promise that their adults will enjoy this and learn the answers to many of their questions as well!
    Nina Shapiro, MD
    Author of The Ultimate Kids’ Guide to Being Super Healthy
  • Dr. Choi has created a brilliantly entertaining and enlightening book, full of bonkers facts that kids will love (and learn) from!
    Simon Basher
    Creator of the Basher Science Series
  • It just doesn’t get better than this combo — answers to questions kids REALLY want to know, paired with amazing illustrations and an approachable graphic-novel format. What’s not to love!
    Asia Citro
    Author of The Curious Kid’s Science Book and the Zoey and Sassafras chapter book series
  • An eye-opening, gut-busting, fun approach to teaching kids about the quirky ways our bodies work.
    Jennifer Swanson
    Award-winning STEM author of Brain Games
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About the Author

Betty Choi, MD, is a board-certified pediatrician, mother of two, and the founder of Human Body Learning. From her roots at Boston Children’s Hospital to over a decade of work in education, her greatest passion is making learning memorable and meaningful for children.

Dr. Betty Choi, author of Human Body Learning Lab anatomy book for kids