"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to the sense of hearing. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--

Rhyming bilingual text and colorful illustrations explore the sense of hearing, describing how it helps us navigate the world around us.

Your ear has three regions: outer ear, middle ear, and inner ear. When sound waves enter your ear canal, your ear drum vibrates. The vibration moves three bones in your middle ear called ossicles. The ossicles are also called the hammer, anvil, and stirrup; they are tiny bones that transfer and amplify sound waves to the oval window behind the stirrup. When the oval window vibrates, fluid moves across a membrane inside your cochlea, causing the membrane...

Discusses how ears are used for hearing, how people who can't hear communicate, and how animals use hearing to survive.

Describes the role of hearing in our lives.

An introduction to the sense of hearing and the different sounds that you can hear.

Describes how humans and animals use the sense of hearing.

When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be--until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father's past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion...

Investigates the power of hearing devices and implants to aid and improve the lives of people with hearing loss. Discusses the types of hearing loss and new technology that has made hearing devices more effective, useful, and discreet than ever. Includes a glossary, an index, resources for more information, and text-relevant questions.