Publisher's Synopsis
"The Senses" is a series of first human biology books which cover the five senses and introduces the young reader to the science of how we perceive and feel things. Each short piece of text if clearly written and accompanied by commissioned photographs showing children from the reader's own age-group. There are experiments and projects to demonstrate each sense and to help the reader to relate the information in the book to his or her own body. Also included are examples to show why each of our senses is so important. The advantages and disadvantages for people who have lost one of their senses are discussed.;This text tells all about our sense of taste. Through interesting experiments we see how our sense of taste teams up with our sense of smell. We learn how it is we can taste the many different flavours of our food and what happens to our sense of taste when we have a cold.
