"Dynamic and eye-catching illustrations.
Originally from Vermont, Steven lives and works in New York City..
Steven Salerno has illustrated more than thirty picture books, including Brothers At Bat , which made the New York Times Book Review\' s list of notable picture books, The Crayon Man: The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons , which won the Irma Black Award for Excellence in Children\'s Literature, and Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag .
Find her online at RajaniLaRocca.com and on Twitter and Instagram @rajanilarocca.
She is the author of Midsummer\'s Mayhem , Much Ado about Baseball , Seven Golden Rings , and Red, White, and Whole .
She earned a BA and an MD from Harvard, and spends her time writing novels and picture books, practicing medicine, and baking too many sweet treats.
Colorful and brilliantly illustrated, The Secret Code Inside You illustrates that while DNA may be the blueprint for how a person looks, what you choose to do with Your body is entirely up to you! about author(s): Rajani LaRocca, MD, was born in India, raised in Kentucky, and now lives in the Boston area with her wonderful family and impossibly cute dog.
Why can\'t humans breathe underwater? Why are some people tall and others short? Why do we resemble our parents and grandparents? This book explores all this and more in flowing, rhyming text, explaining cells, DNA, and genetics in a way that is simple and easy for children to understand.
It makes us into people, instead of into poodles.
It looks like twisted ladders, or tiny, twirling noodles.
A Code that tells Your body\'s cells what they should do each day.
A solid introduction to a complex topic." - Kirkus Reviews Learn about the Secret Code that is DNA in this vibrant and informative picture book! There\'s a Secret Code Inside you, a Code called DNA. . . . "Dynamic and eye-catching illustrations
