You Can't Smell a Flower with Your Ear!: All About Your 5 Senses

by Joanna Cole, Mavis Smith (Illustrator)

Overview

How can your tongue tell a sweet taste from a sour one?

How do your ears know which way a sound is coming from?

Find out in this book - you can read it all by yourself!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442073173
Publisher:	Baker & Taylor, CATS
Publication date:	09/21/2009
Series:	Penguin Young Readers Level 4 Series
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Joanna Cole has taught elementary school, has worked with a news magazine, and was for several years a senior editor of children's books. Today she is a full-time author writing for children. Among the dozens of highly praised children's books she has written are The Magic School Bus books. She has compiled numerous anthologies, including several with Stephanie Calmenson. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and daughter.

Editorial Reviews

Cole's lively text, with examples drawn from daily life, presents some quite complicated scientific information about how the five senses work. Smith's line-and-watercolor cartoons add to the fun even as they help explain the physiology. There are simple diagrams of the eye, ear, nose, and tongue, and explanations about how nerves "like wires" carry messages to the brain. Experiments encourage kids to "try this" and discover, for example, how the sense of taste gets a lot of help from the sense of smell. Words like "molecules" are no longer intimidating when they describe how the smell of pizza enters your nostrils. Even older readers will welcome this clear, practical title in the All Aboard Reading series.

Hazel Rochman