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A child shares the sights, sounds, smells, touches, and tastes of a day at the seashore.

Introduces the sense of smell, discusses how it works, and describes other things people do with their nose, including plugging it, blowing it, and giving Eskimo kisses. Introduces the sense of smell, discusses how it works, and describes other things people do with their noses, including plugging it, blowing it, and giving Eskimo kisses.

A child experiences a flower by seeing its colors, smelling its fragrance, and imagining the tiny world within it.

"The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension--the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic...

A simple presentation of the five senses, demonstrating some ways we use them.

Sophie listens and watches for the signs of spring--the melting ice, the blue sky--until one day the raindrops come and spring is here.

"Our senses are what make life worth living. They allow us to appreciate a sip of an ice-cold drink, the sound of laughter, the touch of a lover. But only recently have incredible advances in sensory biology given us the ability to understand how and why our senses evolved as they have. In Where We Meet the World, biologist Ashley Ward takes readers on a breathtaking tour of how our senses function. Ward looks at not only the five major senses--vision,...

An introduction to the five senses and the organs that perform the functions of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.

Easy-to-read rhyming text describes what can be done on a drum with hand, fingers, and thumb.

"How do I see things? Why do I have to take a bath? Why do I have to eat my vegetables?" This nonfiction series provides young readers with answers to these commonly asked questions and more, with simple introductions to the senses, good hygiene, nutrition, exercise, and the human body. Each book features colorful photographs and simple text to encourage independent reading.