Expect an art-led exploration rather than a conventional lesson: each section uses images, page alterations and brief commentary to evoke seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling, then opens towards imagination.
five sensesobservationvisual artimaginationinterpretationcreative responsemakingoutdoor observationcreative activity
Non-fictionPicture book
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Themes in Context
Sensory attention through art
The book presents sights, sounds, touch, smell and taste through shapes, images, materials and visual associations rather than supplying each sensation directly.Exploratory / explanatoryExploratory / explanatory: the book explains or explores the subject without an established evaluative position.Exploratory / explanatory: the book explains or explores the subject without an established evaluative position.
How the book presents it: It treats sensory awareness as something to investigate imaginatively and invites connections between pictures and everyday experience.
Talk about: Which sensory ideas feel clear, and which remain open to the child’s interpretation?
Imagination as an extra sense
The closing pages use arrows, spirals and blotches to evoke a mysterious sixth sense, perhaps imagination.AmbiguousAmbiguous: the book leaves its position open to more than one reasonable reading.Ambiguous: the book leaves its position open to more than one reasonable reading.
How the book presents it: The ending appears to extend the topic playfully rather than define imagination as a factual sixth sense.
Talk about: Does the child see imagination as a sense, a creative power, or simply an intriguing visual ending?
Art beyond the page
The images are described as prompts for drawing, painting, collage, sensory walks and creative writing.Exploratory / explanatoryExploratory / explanatory: the book explains or explores the subject without an established evaluative position.Exploratory / explanatory: the book explains or explores the subject without an established evaluative position.
How the book presents it: The book presents looking as an active process that can continue through making and real-world exploration.
Talk about: Which activity best helps the child connect a pictured sensation with their own surroundings?
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Why It May Be Worth Reading
Its strongest offering is open-ended creative attention: children can notice how art suggests sensations a book cannot literally provide, then carry those prompts into drawing, making, movement or outdoor observation.
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What Deserves Attention
Some pages may surprise or amuse through a reflective square, optical effects, a Braille alphabet, die-cut shapes and contrasting references to animal poo. The visual density may reward unhurried looking.
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A Conversation Worth Having
Which pages make a sensation feel present without actually supplying a smell, sound or texture? Ask what the child notices first, what changes on a second look, and whether imagination counts as another sense.
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Reading Approach
Browse it in short, flexible sessions rather than insisting on a fixed sequence. Pause at a striking page, imitate a mark or shape, and pair the reading with a safe sensory activity outdoors or at home.
Confidence & Basis
Theme indicators describe how the book presents a topic; they are not a verdict on the whole book or your family's values. Confidence reflects how much book-specific material was checked. Only part of the book information was available, so some details remain unconfirmed.
What remains unconfirmed
Sensory attention through art: Some details of this treatment remain unclear.
Imagination as an extra sense: The precise wording and conclusion are not fully available, so the intended status of the sixth sense remains unclear.
Art beyond the page: The book’s own instructions, if any, and the extent of its activity guidance are not established.
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