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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Jubilee Jenkins has a rare condition: she's allergic to human touch. Finding a safe haven working at her local library, she meets divorced father Eric Keegan. Jubilee is unlike anyone Eric has ever met, and he sets out to convince her to open herself and her heart to everything life can offer . . . setting into motion the most unlikely love story of the year.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First English edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This title invites readers to imagine living without sight through remarkable illustrations done with raised lines and descriptions of colors based on imagery. Braille letters accompany the illustrations and a full Braille alphabet offers sighted readers help reading along with their fingers.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A furry dog. A scaly lizard. Your sense of touch lets you feel these things and more. But how does your sense of touch work? And how does it help you? Read this book to find out! Learn all about your five senses in the Your Amazing Senses series - part of the Lightning Bolt Books collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt Books bring nonfiction topics to life!
Author
Language
English
Description
Examines "how the interface between our sense of touch and our emotional responses affects our social interactions as well as our general health and development ... [exploring] scientific advances in the understanding of touch that help explain our sense of self and our experience of the world. From skin to nerves to brain, the organization of the body's touch circuits powerfully influences our lives--affecting everything from consumer choice to sexual...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The itchy tag: Sid and his friends explore and learn about the different textures around them: smooth, soft, bumpy, and itchy.
What's that smell?: Sid learns how smells travel through the air and arrive inside the nose.
Grandma's glasses: Sid explores his sense of vision, and discovers that even though Grandma's glasses make things look blurry to him, they make things look clear to her.
Too much noise: Sid explores his sense of hearing, and discovers...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"We are out of touch. Many people fear that we are trapped inside our screens, becoming less in tune with our bodies and losing our connection to the physical world. But the sense of touch has been undervalued since long before the days of digital isolation. Because of deeply rooted beliefs that favor the cerebral over the corporeal, touch is maligned as dirty or sentimental, in contrast with supposedly more elevated modes of perceiving the world....
15) What I touch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Touch is one of the earliest senses we develop. It's easy to understand: just reach out and grab it! Beginning readers are, given an opportunity to explore a world of textures in this book. From rough surfaces like sand to smooth cloths and silks, the contrast between sensations makes for a learning experience at every turn. Full-color photographs provide strong picture-text correlation to enhance comprehension of this basic science concept.
16) Touching
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to the sense of touch. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Soft, gooey, fluffy, prickly-textures are all around us. What clever words will you use to describe the textures pictured in this book? Jane Brocket's appealing photography and simple, whimsical text give a fresh approach to a topic all young children learn about.
20) I can touch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Very simple, easy-to-read text pairs up with fun photographs to teach little readers that hands are for touching, as well as all the soft and fuzzy-or rough-things they can touch! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.
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