Kathie Billingslea Smith

How much do you know about your senses? Do you know why your nose is important? Did you know that your nose has different parts? Do you know how you smell things?

Find the answers here in this book.

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This book, part of Troll’s Question Books about the senses, asks the young reader a series of questions that children often ask and then provides the answers. Intended for the primary reader, this informative book helps the young reader understand facts related to the world around them. show more Colorful pictures accompany each double-page spread.

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There’s a winter snowstorm and big, soft flakes fall all day and into the night. The next day, Alex and Emily discover that the winter snowstorm left snow everywhere, so they decide to build a snowman.

A board book with a simple story, “The Perfect Snowman” celebrates the joy of winter days and the childhood thrill of building a snowman. Colorful illustrations accompany the simple text; it’s a perfect book for parents to share with their very young reader.

The story reminded me an awful lot of the book, The Last Unicorn. In that story, the unicorn set off to find her own kind. In this story, the unicorn sets out on a journey to find with whom she belongs. It's not very original. Though, the pictures are beautiful and the moral of the story is nice.

This series of books is very similar to that of “Mickey Wonders Why;” however, instead of having a specific category of topics, the “Question Book Series” from Discovery Toys categorizes the questions based on the question word (which is the title of the book). This book can be appropriate for a variety of ages—you just have to change the purpose and context of lesson and activities around. For example, I would use this for youngsters such as those in kindergarten while teaching show more them about question words. Instead of having them read the book or thinking critically about each question, I would read this book to them and reask them the question “why” to help them understand its purpose and under what context to use it. On the other hand, I would use them for the older children as a tool for reading, analyzing, and critical thinking. This book in particular, “Why?” focuses on the reasons for events occurring in and aspects characterizing our world that we may question or not have thought to question. show less