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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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2023 Reading Challenge May Bonus Category: Nature Books
2024 Reading Challenge: Read a book with a friend or book club
2024 Reading Challenge: Read a book with a friend or book club
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"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...
2) Hot dog
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Language
English
Description
"A summery picture book about mindfulness, featuring an overheated--and overwhelmed-- canine in need of sea, sand, and fresh air"--
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English
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature. Then, one day, a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she'd been overlooking a key element of happiness: her five senses. She'd spent so much time stuck in her head that she'd allowed...
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Combining simple text with gorgeous photos, the latest addition to Jane Brocket's Clever Concepts series encourages children to use all five of their senses (and the corresponding body parts associated with those senses) to investigate the world around them."--
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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,...
10) Touching
Author
Publisher
Bullfrog Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This photo-illustrated book for young readers describes how the brain senses touch and what we learn about our surroundings through our sense of touch"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains the science behind how sight occurs, discusses the links between light, sight, and the brain, examines the phenomena of optical illusions, looks at some of the things that can go wrong with vision, and examines ways to protect the eyes.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In The Man Who Tasted Words, Guy Leschziner leads readers through the five senses and how, through them, our brain understands or misunderstands the world around us. Vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch are what we rely on to perceive the reality of our world. Our five senses are the conduits that bring us the scent of a freshly brewed cup of coffee or the notes of a favorite song suddenly playing on the radio. But are they really that reliable?...
14) What is taste?
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses taste, including how taste works together with smell, how taste buds work, and what the purpose of saliva is.
16) What is hearing?
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains the science of hearing, including how the ear works, the benefits of hearing, and how different animals hear.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains the science behind the sense of taste, looks at the role of the tongue in tasting, identifies the five tastes, discusses the link between taste and other senses, and examines ways to make food more flavorful.
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