Soft and Smooth, Rough and Bumpy: A Book About Touch

by Dana Meachen Rau, Rick Charles Peterson (Illustrator)

Provides examples and illustrations of touch, one of the five senses.

Genres: Childrens

24 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Dana Meachen Rau is an author, editor, and illustrator of children's books. She has written more than 100 books for children, many of them nonfiction in subjects including astronomy, history, and geography, as well as numerous biographies. She lives in Burlington, Connecticut, with her husband and two children.

Reviews

[Emma]

This went a little farther in depth about touch than I really needed for my preschool group, but it was easy enough to skip the green boxes to focus mostly on what the "sensors" in our skin can tell us.

[Kit]

Sunscreen is the only thing we need to protect our bodies when we go out? What about shoes, clothes, raincoat etc etc?

[Brian Strand]

Although this book looks like it will be a fun and easy book to read, it is on the other end of the spectrum. It goes into detail about touch, how our skin is the outside layer of our body, and it keeps tiny sensors and organs in our body. It goes through and talks about the jobs of our nervous system and what they do for us. This book is like a medical journal for elementary students.


1. Have the students trace a partner, then have them label some of the parts from the book.

2. Make a list of different animals and what they have as their "skin" and how it is similar to ours.

[Melinda Garman]

A content book about the sense of touch. Uses descriptive word such as prickly and hot. Teaches that skin is an organ and protects like a jacket. It is the only organ outside your body. Teaches how there are tiny sensors in fingertips that send messages to your brain. Brain tells you the object you are touching; we have sensors all over. Has fun facts. Good for 1st-4th grade.

[Renee]

Summary: Discusses the sense of touch and how it affects the body.

Perfect non-fiction read aloud for PreK age and older.

Want to buy for our collection.

[Natasha]

Soft and Smooth, Rough and Bumpy: A Book about Touch