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FLO - Goodreads' Most Anticipated Books of Summer
Hot Summer Reads - WTPL
MLA - Main's Best Books of 2022
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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...
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"Erica Bauermeister, the national bestselling author of The School of Essential Ingredients, presents a moving and evocative coming-of-age novel about childhood stories, families lost and found, and how a fragrance conjures memories capable of shaping the course of our lives. The Scent Keeper explores the provocative beauty of scent, the way it can reveal hidden truths, lead us to the person we seek, and even help us find our way back home"--
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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...
10) What I taste
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Who doesn't love to dive into a good meal? Our sense of taste is important-without it, how would we know what we like to eat? Early readers take a tour of their taste buds and explore worlds of flavor. From a fresh, sweet orange to a yummy slice of pizza, readers will learn all about this savory sense. Strong picture-text correlation enhanced by full-color photographs helps build early reading skills in budding, hungry readers.
11) What I hear
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Hearing is an important sense for those just beginning to explore the world. From the chirping of birds to the sound of cars and trucks, a good sense of hearing can teach people a lot about the beauty and dangers of the world around them. In this exciting book, early readers learn how hearing impacts their world. Full-color photographs also provide a strong picture-text correlation, while a picture glossary helps enhance vocabulary skills.
12) What I see
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From the moment we open our eyes in the morning to the time we turn out the lights at night, there's lots to see in our world. In this exciting early concepts book, beginning readers learn to take what they see and learn from it. Through accessible text and strong picture-text correlation aided by full color photographs, budding readers' eyes will be opened to the world around them as they learn about this vital sense.
13) What I smell
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How do we know when it's time to eat? Sometimes, it's because we smell something yummy cooking! Early readers dive nose-first into the world of the smells around them, including bad smells like a garbage dump or good smells like apple pie. Accessible language and strong picture-text correlation introduces readers to all of the things the nose knows!
14) What I touch
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Touch is one of the earliest senses we develop. It's easy to understand: just reach out and grab it! Beginning readers are, given an opportunity to explore a world of textures in this book. From rough surfaces like sand to smooth cloths and silks, the contrast between sensations makes for a learning experience at every turn. Full-color photographs provide strong picture-text correlation to enhance comprehension of this basic science concept.
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In her earlier works, Helen Keller described the details of the early illness that left her deaf and blind, and in the prevailing opinion of the day, unable to be educated, as well as the methods that were eventually used to teach her how to communicate. In the remarkable memoir The World I Live In, Keller offers a much more personal take on her situation, inviting readers inside her own personal experience.
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In the publishing tradition of Driven to Distraction or The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing, this prescriptive book by a developmental psychologist and sufferer of Sensory Defensive Disorder (SD) sheds light on a little known but common affliction in which sufferers react to harmless stimuli as irritating, distracting or dangerous. We all know what it feels like to be irritated by loud music, accosted by lights that are too bright, or overwhelmed by...
19) Touching
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"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to the sense of touch. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
20) Listen
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A lyrical picture book intends to inspire empathy by showing how everything and everyone on Earth is connected.
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