Washoe County Library System

Explores how each of the five senses is hard at work all day long providing information, warning of danger, and helping us enjoy the world around us.

Simple text and photographs describe and illustrate the sense of taste.

Simple text and photographs present the sense of seeing and how it works.

Introduces the parts of the ear and explains how they help us hear sounds.

Simple text and photographs present the sense of hearing and how it works.

Illustrates the many different kinds of textures which fingers can touch and feel as well as some of the other things they can do.

A simple introduction to the five basic senses and such other senses as balance, hunger, and thirst.

A basic introduction to how our bodies perceive taste and smell, exploring such topics as the taste buds, the detection of different tastes, the structure of the nose, and artificial tastes and smells.

This book introduces children to the five senses: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching. The simple rhyming text tells us how we learn about the world with our eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin.

Introuduces the sense of touch, discussing how sense receptors sense heat, cold, pain, or pressure.