SuitabookThe Five Senses
Hervé Tullet
- Reading
- 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.
- Themes
- 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. It treats sensory awareness as something to investigate imaginatively and invites connections between pictures and everyday experience.
- Imagination as an extra sense: The closing pages use arrows, spirals and blotches to evoke a mysterious sixth sense, perhaps imagination. The ending appears to extend the topic playfully rather than define imagination as a factual sixth sense.
- Art beyond the page: The images are described as prompts for drawing, painting, collage, sensory walks and creative writing. The book presents looking as an active process that can continue through making and real-world exploration.
- Worth knowing
- 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.