Frank Carlson Library

"In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron's doctor has died. The doctor's replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies. For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking root in young minds and shaping them into doctors, replacing every human practitioner of medicine. The Institute is here to help humanity, to cure and to cut, to cradle and...

Rhyming text describes parts of the body and their uses--hands for waving and painting, a mouth for singing and eating--and tells how the parts add up to be a unique person.

A five-year-old boy thinks his body is falling apart until he learns that new teeth grow, and hair and skin replace themselves.