The Good Germ Hotel
Meet Your Body's Marvellous Microbes
Age 6+
Science & Technology: General Interest
Meet the bacteria super heroes that live inside your body! These amazing microbes fight viruses, digest food and keep us humans healthy and happy.
Did you know that your body is full of bacteria? And that most of it is good bacteria that helps to keep you healthy? Well, now’s your chance to get up close and personal with the microorganisms that live inside all of us. Travel through the body with our gut bacteria guide, stopping off to meet other microbe residents along the way. But you’ll have to keep up, human body bacteria are very busy and have lots of jobs to do – everything from helping to digest the food we eat to protecting us from germs and viruses, such as Covid-19. It’s all in a day’s work for our friendly, neighbourhood microbes!
Creators
Kim Sung-hwa and Kwon Soo-jin studied biology and molecular biology at Pusan National University, South Korea, and have a passion for teaching others about how good bacteria help our bodies and keep us healthy.
Kim Ryung-eon studied painting at university, and has been working as an illustrator for children's picture books since 2003.
Reviews
All the illustrations are comical and huge fun to peruse, helping to make the entire topic accessible to primary school age readers. Whoever would have thought that talking with a bacterium could be so enlightening.
Red Reading Hub
The Good Germ Hotel set up a great discussion in our house about Covid, vaccinations and germs. It’s a great length to be used as a read aloud for younger children or an independent read for KS2. Great to use as we go back to school.
Mister Bod
The germ of an idea turns into a brilliant book for kids as a top team of book boffins reveal through this entertaining and accessible illustrated guide that in a world of Covid-19, in which harmful germs and bacteria are all around us, not all germs are bad for us.
Lancarshire Evening Post
Another incredible non-fiction book from What on Earth Books. This is essential reading for British Science Week … Such clear explanations teamed with glorious illustrations.
Just Imagine
Full of surprising details about gut health and immunity, with lots of quirky pictures to enjoy.
BookTrust
