Sub-Category 1:  Touch

Book Cover	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Age/ Grade	Copyright/ Publisher	Abstract
	The Touch Me Book	Eve Witte, Pat Witte, and Harlow Rockwell	Pre-K	1996.  Golden Books Publishing, Inc.	This book is about a dog.  It has many different types of tactile activities that children can touch and feel different textures, like his soft fur.
	Baby Animals	Dorling Kindersley	Pre-K	1999.  Dorling Kindersley Publishing	This is  a book that explores the sense of touch.  It allows the reader to have tactile contact with the different textures of the book, which presents different animals for different feelings of touch.
	Touching and Feeling	Henry Pluckrose	1-3	1998.  Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers	This book deals with the sense of touch more of on a science level.  It examines the touch of hot and cold, soft and hard, and touches that feel good and then touches that does not feel good, like pain.
	Peter Rabbit's Touch and Feel Book	Beatrix Potter	Pre-K	1999.  Frederick Warne and Company	This book help children examine and feel different types of textures.  Peter Rabbit lost his handkerchief ad looks in the garden to find it among the different types of textures.
	Spot's Big Touch and Feel Book	Eric Hill/Margaret Frith	Pre-K	2000.  Putnam Publishing Group	This book is about a dog who awakes and throughout the day he encounters different textures.  He plays along with his animal friends.

Book Cover	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Age/ Grade	Copyright/ Publisher	Abstract
	Tasting Things	Allan Fowler	1-3grade	1991. Children's Press, Chicago	This book describes the sense of taste from among the five senses.  It talks about how each food has a flavor of its own.  It asks if foods seen in the book are sweet, sour, salty, or does it have an "all in one flavor".  It also explain taste buds and how it differs in different people.
	A Tasting Party	Jane Belk Moncure/Viki Woodwordworth	k-3	1998.  Child's World, Inc.	This book is about the sense of taste.  It goes throughout the book and examines different types of food the reader can experience, for example, seeds, fruits, vegetables, making it like a "tasting party".
	The very Hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle	Pre K	Philomel	This is a story about a caterpillar who uses his sense of taste to grow.  He eats different foods throughout the book and then at the end he turns into a butterfly.
	Bread and Jam for Frances	Russell Hoban/Lillian Hoban	1-3	1986.  HarperCollins Publishers	This is a story about how Frances enjoy her sense of taste.  In this story, Frances loves bread and jam.  She decides that she wants bread and jam for breakfast, lunch, and supper.
	Feathers for Lunch	Lois Ehlert	pre-K	1990.  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego	This story is about a cat who tries to catch him something to eat for the day.  He usually eats out of the can but on this day he wants something wild. He tries to catch and eat a bird, but all he gets is feathers, because the bird always fly away.

Book Cover	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Age/ Grade	Copyright/ Publisher	Abstract
	Smelling Things	Allan Fowler	K-3	1991.  Children's Press, Chicago	This book talks about the sense of smell.  It asks the reader how they like different smells of different things.  Some of the examples are popcorn, blue cheese, etc.
	Sniffing and Smelling	Henry Arthur Pluckroser	2-4	1998.  Raintree/Steck Vaughn	This book deals with the sense of smelling.  It gives the reader examples of how smell is in our lives throughout the day.  It talks about the importance of smell.
	The Nose Book	Al Perkins/Joseph Mathieu	2-5	2003.  Random House Books for Young Readers	The nose book  talks about the importance of our nose and what we use it for.  It gives examples of how we use it everyday.
	Smelling in Living Things	Karen Hartley	k-2	2000.  Heinemann Library	This book uses living things to express the sense of smell.  It explores the science area in a great deal, recognizing how all organisms smell.
	What Your Nose Knows!	Jane Belk Moncure	k-2	1982.  Children's Press, Chicago	This book is about the different smells you associate whether good or bad with your senses.  They contrast smells like a rose and a skunk.

Book Cover	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Age/ Grade	Copyright/ Publisher	Abstract
	The Look Book	Jane Belk Moncure	K-2	1982.  Children's Press, Chicago	This book explains the purpose of the eyes.  It gives examples that eyes are for seeing color, shapes, and it gives examples of different shapes like sailboat, airplane, etc.  It also talks about big animals in regards to their size (big elephant, tall giraffe).
	The Eye Book	Dr. Seuss/Joseph Mathieu	Pre-K	1968.  Random House, Inc.	This book is about a boy and bunny rabbit.  The story examines each of their eyes and then presents things in the story to tell what they eyes see throughout the book.
	Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do You See?	Eric Carle	Pre-K	1996.  Henry Holt and Company	This book has different types of animals that are in the book, like frog, duck, etc.  They are different colors one from another.
	Looking and Seeing	Henry Pluckrose	k-3	1998.  Raintree Steck-Vaughn	This book reads about the different patterns our eyes sees through the sense of sight.  It gives different patterns and shapes.  It also show how some animals are different colors and how they camouflage themselves.
	Adam, Adam, What Do You See?	Bill Martin Jr., and Michael Sampson	k-2	2003.  Tommy Nelson	This is a book that have people and things from the bible.  It introduces these things including animals to the reader.  Very simple good book.

Book Cover	Title	Author/ Illustrator	Age/ Grade	Copyright/ Publisher	Abstract
	Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?	Maurice Sendak	Pre-K	1970.  Random House, New York	This book gives examples of sounds that Mr. Brown can do.  It then asks the reader "How about you?" to make the same noise or sound.
	Bunny's Noisy Book	Margaret Wise Brown/Lisa McCue	K-2	2000.  Hyperion Books for Children,  NY	This is a story about a bunny who hears different noises when he first awakes.  He examines each noise then he goes about his daily routine and the author asks the reader what kinds of noises that the bunny makes as he goes throughout the day.
	Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you hear?	Eric Carle/Bill Martin Jr.	PreK-3	1997.  Henry Holt and Company, NY	This book starts out  reading, Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you hear, and then answers I hear a lion roaring in my ear.  Each animal is then asked what they hear and the animal gives the sound of the next animal named.
	The very Quiet Cricket	Eric Carle	PreK	1997.  Grosset and Dunlap	This book is about a cricket.  It has hand on activities for the children to touch and squeeze and hear the sound of the cricket that it makes.
	Hearing Things	Allan Fowler	K-3	1991.  Children's Press	This book talks about how you use your sense of hearing, and recognize familiar voices like your mother, without looking at her or seeing her.  It gives examples of soft and loud noises, and the sounds of various things

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