Smelling

by Grace Jones

Overview

Discover how our five senses work and help us to understand the world around us. With repetitive and easy to read text and simple diagrams, this series is an ideal introduction for younger readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781910512678
Publisher:	Booklife
Publication date:	10/01/2016
Series:	My Senses
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

Editorial Reviews

"Purchase to get young ones interested in their senses." —School Library Journal

From the Publisher

08/01/2016
K-Gr 2—Get ready to investigate your senses in this set about embracing the world through smell and taste. The format supports young readers with eye-catching photos, colorful font, and simple text limited to one to two sentences per page. Smelling explains how the olfactory sense mainly operates through the nose and how smell can be used to identify danger (smelling smoke). Tasting explores taste buds and the four principal flavors (sweet, sour, bitter, and salty), along with a warning about expired foods. Both titles begin with the same opening spread that defines what the five senses are. In each offering, an ending spread ("Super Senses!") gives an example of how an animal relies on that topic sense ("Butterflies use their antennae to smell with, just like our noses."). This set is a UK import; there are a fair amount of Briticisms throughout Tasting but none in Smelling. For example, in Tasting, Jones uses the term biscuits to mean cookies and the word gone off to mean gone bad. Gone off is listed in the accompanying glossary, so children do have the opportunity to look it up. VERDICT This series is an adequate addition to nonfiction collections. Purchase to get young ones interested in their senses.—Joy Poynor, formerly at Rogers Public Library, AR

School Library Journal