Blood flows throughout your body, from the top of your head to the tips of your fingers and toes.  When you cut yourself, the blood forms a scab that stops the bleeding.  When you bleed, new blood is formed rapidly.

Blood carries food and oxygen to every part of you.  It helps fight disease and infection.

In forthright, accurate, yet easy-to-read language, Paul Showers tells what blood is and why it is so important to us.  Bright and cheerful pictures by Donald Madden complement Mr. Showers' lively account.

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