Explore Your World The Five Senses

Why doesn't food have any taste when the nose is plugged? This book features engaging ways to explain how the five senses send information to the brain. Also included is a section covering those without who are deaf and/or blind. Sight: how the eye works, optical illusions Touch: Reflex test, hot and cold experiment Taste: taste map of the tongue Smell: how smells reach the brain Hearing: how the ear works. About the series: Explore Your World -- a captivating interactive series for young explorers. This new series covers a wide variety of science, nature and technology topics in an innovative and interactive way. The books make use of a profusion of engaging line drawings and colorful illustrations along with delightful pullouts, pop-ups, fold-outs, transparency overlays, reveal wheels, books-within-books and more. Each page offers a surprise for young, curious readers. Lively captions featuring non-technical explanations accompany all the illustrations. Editorial Reviews From Booklist Originally published in France, this small, square book in the Explore Your World series includes lots of interactive pullouts, flaps, and wheels on every bright, packed double-page spread for adults to share with preschoolers. The clear words accompanied by small pictures and photos look closely at each sense in turn, asking questions ("What are eyelids for?") and showing how the senses help "you to find out about the world around you," whether by licking an ice-cream cone or touching a hot iron. Some of the pop-ups are a little fragile for heavy library use, but the tricks and wordplay also add to the interactive fun ("What does it mean when everyone says your eyes are bigger than your stomach?"). Others in the new series introduce such varied topics as space, and animals that live in cold climates. Hazel Rochman Copyright å© American Library Association. All rights reserved Review Incredible series... chock full of information -- but fun, too, with non-technical jargon. (Pamela Fieber Calgary Herald 2007-01-07) Lots of interactive pullouts, flaps, and wheels on every bright, packed double-page spread for adults to share and act out with preschoolers. The clear words with lost of small pictures and photos look closely at each sense in turn... the tricks and wordplay add to the hands-on fun. (Hazel Rochman Booklist 2006-10-15) Rarely do you happen across books with such wide appeal.... Jam-packed with facts relevant to [readers'] immediate lives and curiosities. For both young and old these books pack a wallop of 'coolness' value! ... The reader feels a sense of discovery as each book is explored in depth. The illustrations are bright, bold and colourful. (Kelley McGuire Resource Links vol 12, no 4) Includes lots of interactive pullouts, flaps, and wheels on every bright, packed double-page spread for adults to share with preschoolers.... Clear words accompanied by small pictures and photos look at each sense in turn... Tricks and wordplay also add to the interactive fun. (Hazel Rochman Booklist 2006-10-15)