Five Senses

This booklist was contributed by Appleton Public Library Children's Services Staff, 9/08 

Touch

• Feeling Your Way: Discover Your Sense of Touch by Vicki Cobb (2001)
• Hard Soft by Sharon Gordon (2001)
Uses everyday examples, such as a baseball and a beach ball, to demonstrate the contrast between hard and soft objects.
• I Can Tell by Touching by Carolyn Otto (1994)
Explains how the sense of touch helps to identify everyday objects and familiar surroundings.
• Soft and Smooth, Rough and Bumpy: a Book About Touch by Dana Meachen Rau (2005)
• Texture by Karen Bryant-Mole (1997)
Photographs introduce a variety of textures such as wet (a glass of orange juice), ridged (corduroy), and scaly (reptile skin).
• Tickly Prickly by Bonnie Becker Cacavas (1999)
This book helps children explore the variety of textures around them, from a crawling insect to a whiskery bunny.
• Touch by Kay Woodward (2005)
• Touch by Sue Hurwitz (1997)
Explains the sense of touch, including a discussion of the skin and nerve endings.
• Touch the Poem by Arnold Adoff (2000)
A collection of poems about the sense of touch including a baby's foot in one's palm, peach fuzz on the lip, and the forehead against a cold window.
• Touching by Rebecca Olien (2006)
"Explains the sense of touch how the skin works as a sense organ"--Provided by publisher.
• Touching by Mary Mackill (2006)
What are my senses? -- What do I use to touch? -- How does my sense of touch work? -- What can I touch? -- How does touching help me? -- What can I do to help my sense of touch? -- How can I look after my sense of touch? -- Animals touch, too! -- Test your sense of touch -- Touching is super!