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Animal
Senses
Author: Pamela Hickman
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Product: Book (40 pages)
Ages: 7 to 11
Cost: $14.95 (CDN) |
The subtitle of Animal Senses
says it all—this book is about how animals see, hear, taste,
smell, and feel. You’ll learn that a cat can’t taste sweet
things at all, that an octopus smells with its tentacles, and that
a cow has four times as many taste buds as you do! Read on to find
out how animals without noses smell, learn what different kinds of
animal tongues are good for, and how their senses help animals survive.
Try the included activities and experiments
to simulate animal senses and compare them with your own: use a pair
of binoculars or a kitchen colander to experience how animals such
as hawks and lobsters might see; test your binocular vision; and use
a tennis ball to find out how bats hear by bouncing high-pitched sounds
off nearby objects. |
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Reviewer: Danielle de Carle
Age: 8
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| This book was very well written
and it had a lot of great experiments in it too! The pictures were
very good quality, and at times it was kind of like the pictures
were real.
For me the best part of the book was the
little part about a giant squid’s eyes. Did you know that one
of the giant squid’s eyes is as big as one of the pages in
this book?
The experiments are really cool too. I
learned quite a bit. I learned that crickets’ eyes are on their
legs, and nocturnal animals can’t see colour.
I think this book is worth spending $100
on (but I’m not so sure my parents would agree with me). I
don’t think a thing about it needs to be changed. I thought
this book was totally cool.
(Originally published in the Spring
1999 issue of YES Mag.) |
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