“Parts” is a wonderful book about body exploration from the mind of the creator of “Green Wilma,” Tedd Arnold. He says he wrote Rat Life because he was looking to see if he could write a book without using pictures it was something that was just an experiment, and not something he would pursue. This book is about how a young boy starts to panic when weird things start to happen to his body. Tedd Arnold writes the Fly Guy series, the Huggly series, the Parts series, and Fly Guy Presents series.

This book was voted Best Children’s Book for Parents Magazine and it richly deserves that honor as it is surely a children’s classic. Tedd Arnold has done a great job in writing the boy’s woes in a rhyming text, which makes this story even more humorous and reassuring. Tedd Arnold creatively extends on how children feel like the world is coming to an end when strange stuff start happening to their body and this boy (remember he is only five years old) and how parents usually makes things better by explaining the situation to their child in a calm manner, such as the boy’s parents explaining to the boy that everything happening to him is perfectly normal.

Also, Tedd Arnold’s illustrations are humorous since he portrays the boy as a bug-eyed kid with a large head and no neck (as seen on the cover of the book). Tedd Arnolds previous books about Chip, Parts and More Parts, are raucous, creative knee-slappers that have become true kid favorites- perhaps because. The illustrations that are the true highlights in this book are the illustrations of the boy imagining that each of his body parts are falling apart, especially of the image where he thinks that his stuffing is coming out of him when he finds a piece of fuzz in his belly button.

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