You Can't Taste A Pickle With Your Ear: A Book About Your 5 Senses

This is a cute informational picture book that gets students thinking about the senses that they use every day. Would make a great read aloud book for all ages!

This is a great book to introduce more information about the five senses. A great way to tie reading into a science lesson because of the accuracy of the information. A longer book, so better to read to older children or in segments with children in younger grades. The silly nature and vivid illustrations will draw children's attention.

Genre: Informational

Media: Watercolor

Summary: This book is a series of fun ways to talk about your senses and what they are and what they do. It is all true facts and it presents the ideas with numerous examples of what the senses do and do not do. Hence, you can't taste a pickle with your ear. This book is a good simple informational for young children because of the ideas presented and simplicity of the topic. It also is a good example because of the humor brought into the subject.

The book includes an overview on the five senses, a chapter on each sense containing a explantion of that sense, funny, colorful illustrtions, humorous verses such as “when you’re tired and think you’re sweet, pull off your socks and smell your feet”, and a group of questions to use for further discussion for example, “what do you smell right now?” “What smells icky?”. I would use each chapter individually as part of a bigger unit on the senses.

A colorful, witty description of the five senses and how they help us.

In this informational text, all five senses are addressed in a fun, yet informative manner. In addition to inquiring questions, there is a poem in each chapter to highlight the sense discussed.

A book about your 5 senses