Tasting with your feet

Taste with your Feet is a fascinating insight into the ways that animals use sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch and other sensory abilities to make sense of the world. One of the most interesting aspects of the animal kingdom is the way that animals have developed an incredible array of senses to live day-to-day in the world. Butterflies taste with their feet, a bumblebee can see a flower’s ultraviolet colours, a shark can sense its prey’s electric pulses, a bat can use echolocation to fly through a forest at night without hitting anything, a godwit can use the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate from Alaska to New Zealand. Tasting with your Feet explores the myriad, and often bizarre ways that animals use sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch and the ability to sense movement, to make their way in the world. With clear descriptions and wonderfully illustrative artwork, Ned Barraud opens up this world to children in a highly original way. Any child interested in the animals around them will be intrigued by this beautiful book.

Author Biography

Ned Barraud has been illustrating children’s books since 2000, after studying art at Victoria University. He has illustrated seven books in the highly successful ‘Explore and Discover’ series about different ecosystems in New Zealand, and seven other books on his own, including Watch out for the Weka, and 2018’s acclaimed book on insects New Zealand’s Backyard Beasts. Always fascinated by the form and beauty of the animal kingdom, Ned produced Where is it? A wildlife hunt for Kiwi kids, in 2020, and since then What happened to the Moa, New Zealand’s Backyard Birds, and Incredible Journeys: New Zealand Wildlife on the Move.