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Now Hear This!

The Secrets of Ears and Hearing

Now Hear This

by Melis­sa Stewart

Bench­mark Books, 2010

for Grades 3 to 5

ISBN 978–0‑76144–161‑8

Pur­chase this book at your local inde­pen­dent book­seller or Amazon.com.

The live­ly, con­ver­sa­tion­al tone and blend of pho­tos and car­toon-style art make Now Hear This: The Secrets of Ears and Hear­ing a per­fect blend of fun facts and seri­ous sci­ence learn­ing about the human ears as well as the hear­ing sys­tems of oth­er crea­tures. Here at last—a book that’s irrev­er­ent enough to cap­ti­vate young read­ers, yet author­i­ta­tive enough to win the praise of teach­ers, librar­i­ans, and parents.

Honors and Awards

  • Soci­ety of Children’s Book Writ­ers and Illustrator/Anna Cross Gib­lin Non­fic­tion Research Grant

Reviews

“There is an amaz­ing amount of infor­ma­tion packed into every page… [The book] gives many details on the dif­fer­ent parts of the ear and their func­tions. Read­ers will under­stand far more about how ears work in hear­ing and in bal­ance.… this is a good start­ing point for healthy ear under­stand­ing. [The books in this series] are won­der­ful human body titles for ele­men­tary schools.” (School Library Jour­nal’s Prac­ti­cal­ly Par­adise blog)

“The Gross and Goofy Body [series of books] enlivens phys­i­ol­o­gy for kids, offer­ing humor­ous yet sci­en­tif­ic sur­veys of body func­tions in just under 50 pages each. Kids in grades 2–4 will find [these books] appeal­ing and fun. Each blends pho­tos with fun car­toons and pho­tos of kids, along with plen­ty of basic phys­i­ol­o­gy.” (Chil­dren’s Book­watch)

“Despite its irrev­er­ent moniker, the Gross and Goofy Body series offers detailed sci­ence facts in a fash­ion approach­able enough to make it a wel­come sup­ple­ment to school text­books. Each vol­ume takes on a part or func­tion of the body and then goes through the paces of descrip­tion, metaphor, exam­ples, data, and, most exten­sive­ly, com­par­i­son to our ani­mal coun­ter­parts. … the lay­out is fresh, clean, and col­or­ful, side­bars keep things con­ver­sa­tion­al, and the back mat­ter is sol­id.” (Book­list)

Behind the Book

“I’ve writ­ten about ears and hear­ing before, but this is the first time I’ve dis­cussed the two dif­fer­ent kinds of ear­wax or told read­ers how they can learn to wig­gle your ears. The book also explains how sci­en­tists are using ear pro­teins to design bet­ter space suits and why human ears nev­er stop grow­ing. I knew these kinds of facts would real­ly fas­ci­nate kids. Your ears—and the ears of oth­er animals—are tru­ly amazing.”

Series at a Glance

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Now Hear This

by Melis­sa Stewart

Bench­mark Books, 2010

for Grades 3 to 5

ISBN 978–0‑76144–161‑8

Pur­chase this book at your local inde­pen­dent book­seller or Amazon.com.