Six-part series that goes around the globe in search of the biological roots of our senses of smell, vision, taste, touch and balance. Live action combined with special effects creates imagery to convey the "feeling" of how our senses work.

"Professor Francis Colavita offers a biopsychological perspective on the way we humans navigate and react to the world around us in a process that is ever-changing. Our experiences are vastly different today than they were when we were children and our senses and brains were still developing; and those experiences are becoming ever more different as we age, when natural changes alert us to the need to compensate, often in ways that are quite positive"--Publisher's...

Ms. Frizzle and her class explore the senses by traveling on the magic school bus in and out of an eye, ear, mouth, nose, and other parts of both human and animal bodies.

Discusses how different animals use their senses to find food, attract a mate, detect danger, bond with their young, and more.

Introduces the sense of hearing, including how the ear works and different things people hear.

Photographs and simple text introduce colors, including red, blue, yellow, and others.

Photographs record the reactions of the eye, ear, nose, and tastebuds to both pleasant and unpleasant stimuli.

An illustrated introduction to the human brain, nervous system, and senses.

"How can we ever be sure that we really know the other? To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the nonhumans, the beasts. And to do that, he tried to be like them, choosing a badger, an otter, a fox, a deer, and a swift. He lived alongside badgers for weeks, sleeping in a burrow on a Welsh hillside and eating earthworms, learning to sense the landscape through his...